We went up to Akko to go to the Ghetto Fighters' Museum (בית לוחמי הגיטאות). It was a simple train ride to Akko, and a local 271 bus (NIS 6.60 = $1.75) out to the museum. It has a beautiful view of the Galilee and it's a terrific museum.
View to the east of the green Galilee
Har Gamla, at the edge of the Golan Heights
The museum has specific collections about the Holocaust, hiding Jews, and Jewish resistance. Downstairs, there's a big room with black walls on two sides that contain artifacts. You can turn on lights for the boxes and get more information on them. One of the other sides has a very big projection screen, with this playing on it continuously. I was very taken with this artistic expression: it's most similar to the outside exhibit at Yad vShem that has a stone canyon with city names, called Valley of the Communities. My little video is just a tiny overview, please imagine being overwhelmed by the floating letters. Any town name takes 10 seconds to form, but only 1 second to be dispersed.
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