22 Friday, June 25, 1982 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Dual Role of Ghetto Fighter's House, as Holocaust Museum, Education Center THE FINEST AND LARGEST POOL BUILDER IN THE MIDWEST Almost a quarter of a century of supplying discriminating buyers has earned an unequaled reputation for Miami Pools. And, if you purchase a pool from Miami, we'll give $150.00 to your Temple or Synagogue. You are cordially invited to visit our beautiful indoor dis- play at 33060 Northwestern Highway at Fourteen Mile Road. miami blue wafer pools, inc. 33060 Northwestern Highway West Bloomfield, Michigan 626-5131 SOUTHFIELD OFFICE: 358-0012 ROMEO, MI. OFFICE: 752-6333 By EMMA KIMOR World Zionist Press Service JERUSALEM — At the Ghetto Fighters' Museum at Kibutz Lohamei ha- Ghetta'ot in the Western Galilee, records and ar- tifacts of the horror and suf- fering of the Jews just be- fore and in the Holocaust, as well as their resistance and uprising, are displayed. 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However, when it was s*: founded in 1949, six years from the day the Jewish up- rising in the Warsaw The Ghetto Fighters' House, Documentation Ghetto began, it was the ter and Museum of the Holocaust and Resistance only one of its kind; its nuc- Kibutz Lohamei ha-Ghetta'ot stands as a museum and leus of 200 was perhaps the educational facility to perpetuate the memory of the largest exclusive group of Holocaust. survivors of Nazi concentra- The several thousand glances, looks more tion camps and of ghettos books in the library concen- thoroughly here and and partisan fighters from trate on the theme of the there, and passes on to Poland, Russia and Nazi period and were writ- the next attraction on the Lithuania. Lohamei ha- ten and translated into list. Ghetta'ot is the Hebrew for many languages. Particu- Yet, "We do not wish our "ghetto fighters." larly gripping is the art dis- museum to serve only as a A handful of docu- play of individual ments, photographs, sculptures, paintings, monument which recites books and artifacts sketches — plastic wit- Kadish for the victims of the brought along by the nesses of the Holocaust and Holocaust," states the direc- founding members were the anti-Nazi resistance tor of the museum, kibutz the beginning of the smuggled out of the camps, member Zvi Shner. "The Ghetto Fighters' or found in hiding long after main thing is the educa- Museum, now a com- many of the artists them- tional aspect." Study days at the Ghetto pound of an impressive selves had perished in the Fighters' House have be- main building with an- death camps. nexes, and a large out- The museum houses rec- come an integral part of door amphitheater, reated visual presentations many Israeli high school where every year on Na- such as the Treblinka ex- curricula and of the Israeli tional Memorial Day a termination camp, Anne Defense Force educational mass assembly of Frank's hiding place in programs. In 1981, 10,000 Holocaust survivors Amsterdam where she had school children and 4,000 from all over the country kept her diary, an illumi- soldiers came to study. - Workshops for teachers, nated wall map indicating takes place. Its full name — Ghetto the location of concentra- study courses for foreign Fighters' House, Documen- tion and death camps over students and visitors from tation Center and Museum Nazi-occupied Europe, and many countries are part of of the Holocaust and Resis- the original glass cage in the museum's activities. tance — should actually tell which Eichmann sat during The auditorium seats 250, all about it. Indeed, it in- his trial in Jerusalem in for films, documentaries and lectures. cludes archives, with a spe- 1960. A child's discarded cial section of 40,000 photo- graphs, including those shoes and apron cry out Former Soviet taken by the Germans, and from under the display Spy Joins BB box in a lingering wail. More than 240 documentary films, a large number of This is no ordinary Lecture Bureau museum where one which were also Nazi-made. WASHINGTON — Vla- dimir N. Sakharov, a former spy in the Soviet KGB who defected to the West and be- came an agent for the CIA, is one of the featured speak- ers in next season's offer- ings of the Bnai Brith In- ternational Lecture Bureau. The bureau, now in its 20th year, provides speak- ers, performing artists, and complete programming for communal and religious organizations as well as col- leges and universities across North America. 4 HAVE I GOT A BUICK FOR YOU! Name Lounge at Hebrew U. SHELDON METZ, SALES MGR. SAVE CALL ME TODAY rf. I 600 S. MAIN, ROYAL OAK rt(1 OPEN MON. 'TIL 9 P.M. & THURS. 548-3600 JERUSALEM — The David and Ruth Wechsler Psychology Faculty Lounge has been dedicated at the Hebrew University "-- Jerusalem. Prof. Wechsler was a pioneer in many facets of psychological research in the United States. The Wechsler-Bellevue intern- gence* test is one of the most widely used IQ tests today. He was a member of the American Friends of He- breW University and of the university board of trustees.