Lohamei HaGeta'ot

32.96277777777835.095833333333Koordinaten: 32 ° 58 'N, 35 ° 6' O

Lochamej haGeta'ot (Hebrew לוחמי הגטאות ) is a kibbutz on the road from Acre to Nahariya in northern Israel with about 460 inhabitants.

Was founded the settlement in 1949 by survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, including Yitzhak Zuckerman, deputy commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization. The name means " ghetto fighters", reminiscent of the Jews who were killed during the Holocaust in the erected by the Nazis in ghettos.

The Museum

In 1949, a kibbutz museum house of the Ghetto Fighters was founded, the right of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before, during and after the Holocaust busy. Focal points of the exhibition are the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto and a model of the Treblinka extermination camp. In another building a memorial is located, which is reminiscent of the children who were killed by the Nazi extermination policy.

The aqueduct Al Dschazzars

At the edge of the kibbutz are the well-preserved remains of an aqueduct, which was built in 1780 by al - Dschazzar to supply Acre with water.

People

  • Zivia Lubetkin (1914-1978), Polish resistance fighter and social worker
  • Yitzhak Zuckerman (1915-1981), Polish resistance fighters
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