Ghetto Fighters' House

The Ghetto Fighters' House is a Holocaust museum founded in 1949 by members of Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot. It is located in the Western Galilee, Israel, on the Coastal Highway between Acre (Akko) and Nahariya.

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History

The Ghetto Fighters' House was founded in 1949. Among the founders were Holocaust survivors who fought in the ghetto undergrounds and partisan units. The museum is named for Itzhak Katzenelson, a Jewish poet who was murdered at Auschwitz.
The Ghetto Fighters' House was the world's first museum commemorating the Holocaust and Jewish heroism, with a focus on Jewish resistance in the ghettos and concentration camps. 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 rockets from Lebanon, and visitors are not coming.

Departments and activities

Museum exhibitions
Guided tours
Zivia and Yitzhak "Antek" Zuckerman Study Center
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
Library and Reference Room
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". It is the story of Otto, a Jewish boy of Hungarian-Polish origin from Auschwitz, whom the infamous doctor Josef Mengele forced to behave like a dog. The story superficially resembles the 1969 novel Adam Resurrected by Yoram Kaniuk, which was made into a 2008 American-German-Israeli drama with the same title. A 2021 article in Haaretz describes attempts of a contemporary researcher to trace the fate of the "Mengele's dog" boy.