Medal Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Issued by the Ghetto Fighters' House (Beit Lohamei Haghettaot)
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The reverse has a picture in the center of the main building of the Ghetto Fighter’s House. Above the building in Hebrew is “Beit Lohamei Haghettaot”. Below the building in Hebrew is “In memory of Yitzhak Katzenelson, For Heritage of the Holocaust and Resistance” Curved around the lower rim is “BEIT LOHAMEI HAGHETTAOT - GHETTO FIGHTERS’ HOUSE”. Curved around the upper rim, in Hebrew, “27th of Nissan, National Memorial Day for Holocaust and Heroism”.
Identifer: CJF-RFC2015063
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The Ghetto Fighters’ House was founded in 1949 by Holocaust survivors, ghetto fighters and partisans, who settled in the Western Galilee and set up Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot on the main road (Route 2) from Akko (Acre) to Nahariya. There is significance in the fact that the Ghetto Fighters’ House adjoins the kibbutz; the kibbutz is a living community, reflecting the rebuilding of Jewish life and faith in the future of the Jewish people after the Holocaust.
Initially the Ghetto Fighters’ House functioned as a documentation center. In the 1950’s it developed into a museum, a research institute and a center for education. The museum contains permanent historical and documentary exhibitions that deal with three main topics: (1) Jewish life before the Holocaust, (2) the Holocaust period and the fate of the Jewish People; and (3) Jewish resistance and uprising.
The medal was issued in bronze (5000 minted), silver (500 minted), silver-plated and gold-plated.
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