"The Ghetto Fighters’ House was founded in April 1949 by Holocaust survivors, Labor Zionists who came to the newly independent State of Israel to live together in a kibbutz - a cooperatively organized living and working community with shared goals and social humanist values. While the kibbutz founders lived in tents and shacks, its two stone buildings (left from the British Mandate) were dedicated to gathering and documenting testimonial materials of survivors about their experiences of the Holocaust. These photographs, artifacts and stories were the basis of the first exhibitions to which the public was invited. Israel’s earliest national assemblies for Holocaust remembrance were held on the slopes beside the GFH Museum’s permanent location, an annual tradition that continues to this day. In the mid-1990s, the GFH Archives “went global” by posting on its pioneering website tens of thousands of historical materials with explanatory comments and key words for searching."@en . . . . . "GFH is located on the Coast Highway (Rte #4) between Acre (Akko) and Nahariya.
\r\nOn-site parking is available at no charge.
\r\nPublic transportation: BY BUS: From the Egged terminal at Haifa-Merkazit Hamifratz: Line 271 (local) to Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot. BY TRAIN: Northbound to the Akko station; continue northbound by intercity taxi-van or the 271 bus.
\r\nBuilding accessibility: Ground-floor offices and library with adjacent parking; elevator to Researchers’ Room and all levels."@en . . . . . . "GFH Museum Hours: Sunday–Thursday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
\r\nArchives Hours: same as Museum hours and by appointment"@en . "The Ghetto Fighters’ House was conceived in 1946 in Poland, by a group of Holocaust survivors, among them fighters of the Jewish underground in the ghettos of Poland and veterans of partisan combat, to be a place of testimony, telling the story of the Jewish people in the 20th Century and particularly during the Nazi era and the Second World War.
\r\n\r\nFrom its foundation in the newly formed State of Israel, the Ghetto Fighters’ House - Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum , has functioned as a documentation and testimonial archive; since the 1950s it has also served as a museum, educational center, and research facility."@en . . . "The archival collections' content accessible to the public is searchable by key word directory, catalog numbers or open text via the Online Archives on the GFH website.\r\n\r\nMore extensive holdings are uploaded to the Intranet system and accessible on-site by visiting researchers; requires prior scheduling.\r\n\r\nThe GFH Library holdings are indexed and computer-searchable on-site with the Librarian's assistance"@en . "Much of the archival materials, including tens of thousands of photo images, documents, artworks, etc. with accompanying explanations, have been digitized and made available for viewing on the GFH website’s Online Archive. These can be downloaded for personal use and classroom presentation; see the GFH website for details.
\r\nAdditional archival materials presently unavailable online have been uploaded to the onsite Intranet system; reproduction conditions as above.
\r\nHigh-resolution images of archival materials are available by order; there is a fee for this service.
\r\nThe use of reproduced GFH archival materials in print or electronic format for educational or commercial distribution is by arrangement with the Archives director and requires signature of a Terms of Use Agreement. "@en . . "Beit Lohamei Haghetaot Archives/ בית לוחמי הגטאות"@en . "The Research Library has PC workstations with Internet; free wireless Internet connection.
\r\nThe main historical museum and\"Yad Layele\" children's memorial with permanent and temporary exhibitions are open to the public; entrance fee.
\r\nThe Museum shop offers books, DVDs, and educational materials for sale.
\r\nA cafeteria and a convenience store are within walking distance of GFH.
\r\nThe GFH Auditorium, Study Center, grounds and open-air outdoor theatre are available for events and meetings."@en . . . "Researchers are welcome to consult with the GFH Archives’ senior staff to evaluate and coordinate their use of the archival materials. Archives staff members are assigned to assist in searching and accessing the holdings’ files. A dedicated Researchers' Room is equipped with desktop computers whose onsite Intranet programs allow searching and viewing materials not accessible to the offsite (Internet) user. The research librarian assists with the library’s extensive reference materials, and audio-visual stations are available for viewing films and video content."@en . "To schedule a meeting with Archives staff, contact us in advance by email or phone.
\r\nWalk-in visitors will be accommodated as staff scheduling allows. "@en . ">> Mémorial/YV/ClaimsCon'06"@en . . . . "– on the Holocaust of the Jewish people and Jewish resistance
\r\nHISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE MATERIALS: covers three main time periods:
\r\n(a) Jewish communities in Europe between the two world wars: youth movements; religious life; society, education and culture; photographs, photo negatives, films, video-recorded testimonies, audiotaped testimonies, photograph records, press clippings, and a great many documents: personal official papers, letters and postcards, administrative documents, handwritten testimonies and memoirs, diaries, literary works and musical compositions.
\r\n(b) The fate of the Jewish people under the Nazi regime and during WWII : increasing restrictions on civil and human rights; in camps and ghettos, forests and hiding places; physical and spiritual resistance; rescue and extermination;
\r\n(c) The rebuilding of lives after the Liberation: DP camps; clandestine aliyah and the detention camps on Cyprus; relations with the Yishuv in Mandate Palestine.
\r\nTYPES OF MATERIALS:
\r\n(a) The Archival Collections: photographs, photo negatives, films, video-recorded testimonies, audiotaped testimonies, photograph records, press clippings, and a great many documents: personal official papers, letters and postcards, administrative documents, handwritten testimonies and memoirs, diaries, literary works and musical compositions.
\r\n(b) The Art Collection: Original drawings, paintings, and sculptures made during the Holocaust and directly afterwards, by known and amateur artists; in ghettos, concentration and labor camps, partisan units, and in hiding; particular documentation of art as testimony.
\r\n(c) The Artifacts Collection: Authentic items from the three historical periods (above), cross-referenced with materials from the general archival collections, e.g. photographs, diaries, testimonies, etc.
\r\n(d) The Library: The Library holds some 60,000 titles in various languages, on the following topics:
\r\nMemorial books of communities describing Jewish life and culture prior to WWII and the Holocaust period in which they were destroyed;
\r\nBooks of testimony and memoirs written by Holocaust survivors;
\r\nWorks of nonfiction, fiction, academic texts and research about the Holocaust, Jews and Judaism, Zionism and related topics;
\r\nPhoto volumes documenting Jewish life in the ghettos and camps, and the various aspects of World War Two;
\r\nArt books featuring the works of Jewish and non-Jewish artists and about them; artists who depicted the experiences of the Holocaust in drawing, painting and sculpture;
\r\nBooks in Yiddish, German, Polish, Russian, French, Dutch, and Spanish: literature (fiction), testimonies and memoirs;
\r\nEdu-kits, lesson plans and study guides for teaching Holocaust topics;
\r\nAcademic journals on the Holocaust, Zionism and Jewish history;
\r\nFilms: documentary and fiction on Holocaust topics, in videotape and DVD format (for onsite viewing; not for loan or copying). "@en .