Information
Centre
The Ammunition Hill National Memorial Site and Museum
In Jerusalem
Extracts
from the Report sent by Gad Ben Ari, Director General
The
Information Centre of the Struggle for Jerusalem, established
two years ago thanks to a generous donation by the Dangoor
family, contains a variety of material on the struggle for
Jerusalem from the beginning of the 19th century to the
present day.
The
information is organised according to the following subjects:
Jerusalem from the beginning of the 19th Century until the
British Mandate (1917)
- The British
Mandate (1917-1948)
- The War
of Independence (1947-1948)
- The divided
City (1948-1967)
- The Six
Day War
- Jerusalem
– the united City
- Jerusalem
– the centre for the Jewish people
- Commemoration
and memorial
- Values –
in battle and in daily life
ACTIVITIES
Every
week, schoolchildren, youth, families of fallen soldiers
and visitors to the Memorial Site make use of the resources
at the Information Centre. Students, researchers, tour-guides
and the members of the public-at-large who are interested
in the period are also served by the Centre and the number
of its visitors is constantly growing.
The
Information Centre is composed of three complementary sections:
THE
STUDY LIBRARY – containing thousands of books, periodicals,
brochures and flyers, some bequeathed by such notable personalities
as Uzi Narkis and Motta Gur.
THE
ARCHIVES – contain a collection of documents, photographs,
newspaper clippings, maps, audiotapes and videotapes. Archive
materials include soldiers’ eyewitness accounts, materials
from study days and other activities held at the site and
so forth.
THE
COMPUTERISED DATA BANK – is part of the Information
Centre, but stands as a project on its own. The material
in the library’s other two sections in the process
of computerisation and multi-media productions are being
developed.
From
The Ammunition Hill National Memorial Site and Museum
Dedicated to the Reunification of Jerusalem during the Six
Day War, 1967
Thank
you for the information you sent us about - The Scribe.
We
made this information available to the visitors of our DANGOOR
LIBRARY at Ammunition Hill.
We
also sent the information to "Yad ben Zvi" - one
of the important institutions in Jerusalem, which investigate
the History of the Jewish communities around the world.
Jerusalem
Yoram Tamir
Director
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you would like to make any comments or contribute to The
Scribe please contact
us.
