Lohamey ha-Geta'ot

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Lohamey ha-Geta'ot (Hebrew: לוחמי הגטאות) is an Israeli kibbutz having some 300 members. Its name means "fighters of the ghettoes" and the kibbutz commemorates the Jews who fought back against Nazism. The Ghetto Fighters' House is located on its grounds.

The kibbutz was founded in 1949 in the Western Galilee on the Coast Highway between Acre (Akko) and Nahariya, on the site of the former Arab village of Al-Sumayriyya. ^[1] Its founding members include surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (notably Icchak Cukierman, ŻOB deputy commander), as well as former Jewish partisans and other Holocaust survivors.

In the mid-1980s the kibbutz acquired the Tivall vegetarian food products factory, which has become a mainstay of its income. Other branches include a large dairy and agriculture. The kibbutz is currently undergoing a process of privatization. It belongs to the Mateh Asher Regional Council.

[edit] References

1. ^ pp 30-31, All That Remains, ed. Walid Kalidi, publ. Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington, DC, ISBN 0-88728-224-5

[edit] External links

• Web site of the Ghetto Fighters' House museum (English)
• Kibbutz data in the museum's Web site (by Haim Gouri, in Hebrew)