The Center for Humanistic Education at the Ghetto Fighters' Museum

The Center for Humanistic Education has been working in connection with the Ghetto Fighters' Museum since 1995, offering a unique approach towards Holocaust education. The Center examines the Holocaust as a historical, Jewish and universal crisis that calls to confront social and human dilemmas and their current manifestations. The Center does this in an educational way that leads towards understanding the importance of democratic values, provides tools for moral judgment and civic responsibility and combats the indifference towards the suffering of others or towards the infringement of human rights that endangers the existence of society at all times.

Website: www.gfh.org.il

The project “From Studying the Holocaust to Practicing Humanistic Dialogue” consists of a series of weekly encounters for Arab and Jewish Israeli groups of students, who choose to take part, and of multicultural seminars. It is based on the educational process as a point of departure for dialogue between people from different backgrounds, citizens of the complex twenty-first century Israeli society, as for example - between Jews and Arabs. The project addresses selected Holocaust issues and their background, discussing the ethical dilemmas and current aspects they raise. In the multicultural seminars participants confront questions of identity, the battle against racism and infringement of human rights, majority-minority relations and the Jewish-Arab conflict in Israel.