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The Ghetto Fighters' House ( ''Beit Lohamei Ha-Getaot'', Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, Documentation and Study Center) is a

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museum founded in 1949 by members of

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Lohamei Hagetaot. It is located in the Western Galilee, Israel, on the Coastal Highway between Acre (Akko) and

Nahariya Nahariya () is the northernmost coastal city in Israel. As of , the city had a population of . The city was founded in 1935 by Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. Etymology Nahariya takes its name from the stream of Ga'aton River, Ga'aton (riv ...

History

The Ghetto Fighters' House was founded in 1949. Among the founders were

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who fought in the

ghetto A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other ...

undergrounds and

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units. The museum is named for Itzhak Katzenelson, a Jewish poet who was murdered at

Auschwitz Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschw ...

. The Ghetto Fighters' House was the world's first museum commemorating the Holocaust and

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heroism, with a focus on Jewish resistance in the ghettos and

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. Friends of GFH associations are active in Israel, France, Austria, and the United States. In November 2024, it was announced that the museum is in danger of closing following the Iron Swords War, the building was hit by

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s from

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, and visitors are not coming.

Departments and activities

*Museum exhibitions *Guided tours (for groups in

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and other languages) * Zivia and Yitzhak "Antek" Zuckerman Study Center (facility for one-, two-, and three-day seminars) *''Yad LaYeled'' Children's Museum and memorial, telling the story of children during the Holocaust *International Book-Sharing Project, using children's books about the Holocaust to foster dialogue and understanding *Center for Humanistic Education *Archives (documents, photographs, artifacts, art collection, recordings) *Library and Reference Room (resources and assistance for researchers, educators and students) *Department of Research on the Holocaust of Soviet Jewry *Publications Department

"Mengele's dog"

In 2006 a 15-page typewritten manuscript in Polish language was found in the archives titled "Pies Mengelego" ("Mengele's Dog"). It is the story of Otto, a Jewish boy of Hungarian-Polish origin from

, whom the infamous doctor

Josef Mengele Josef Mengele (; 16 March 19117 February 1979) was a Nazi German (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, often dubbed the "Angel of Death" (). He performed Nazi hum ...

forced to behave like a dog. The story superficially resembles the 1969 novel '' Adam Resurrected'' ("Adam Son of a Dog") by

Yoram Kaniuk Yoram Kaniuk (; May 2, 1930 – June 8, 2013) was an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theatre critic. Biography Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv. His father, , was the first curator of Tel Aviv Museum of Art and was born in Ternopi ...

, which was made into a 2008 American-German-Israeli drama with the same title. A 2021 article in ''

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'' describes attempts of a contemporary researcher to trace the fate of the "Mengele's dog" boy.Ofer Aderet
The Mystery of the Jewish Boy Who Was Forced to Be Mengele’s ‘Dog’
''

'', April 8, 2021

References

External links

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Podcast about the exhibitions and educational work from the Ghetto Fighters' House
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History

Departments and activities

"Mengele's dog"

See also

References

External links