The American Friends of The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum hosted a reception on May 11th, 2009, at The Harmonie Club in New York City. The event was a benefit for The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum on its sixtieth anniversary, and the American Friends’ educational programs.

The featured speaker was Ambassador Gabriela Shalev, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. Participants at the event included leading personalities in the fields of real estate and business, and individuals who are active in Israeli, Jewish and Holocaust related causes.

Located in northern Israel, the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum is the world’s first and oldest Holocaust Museum, founded in April 1949 by the surviving leadership of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, partisans and other Jewish Resistance fighters. Yad Layeled, its Children’s Museum, is the only museum devoted entirely to the memory of the one ...

... and a half million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust. The Museum also houses the Center for Humanistic Education, which brings together Jews, Muslim and Christians Arab, and Druze students to learn about the Holocaust and participate in programs that emphasize democratic values, moral judgment and civic responsibility.

For sixty years the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum has been documenting, retelling and teaching the many faces of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, and has carried on its founders’ commitment to Holocaust education. The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum has become an internationally-renowned institute of learning, research and innovative educational programming on the Holocaust.