“Remembering the past, live the present, believe in the future.”
~Abba Kovner
Mashmaut Center (Heritage, Holocaust, Tradition, Values, and Revival) was founded in 1994 on the initiative of Dr. Lea Ganor, the head of the center, in collaboration with the Municipality of Kiryat Motzkin and the Ministry of Education Haifa district. The center is an impressive and unique educational platform for the young generation and the entire community. The center provides seminars, effective workshops, and diverse lectures in which emphasis is placed on relevant issues for the Jewish people in Israel and the Diaspora, Holocaust remembrance and rebirth of the state of Israel and struggle against anti-Semitism. The center also supports educational cooperation with Poland and Germany in a framework of interdisciplinary educational program that combines diverse value content, that relates to our existence as Israelis and as Jews in the State of Israel in light of the past, present and future.
The center’s activities are attended by diverse groups such as: students, youth and adult delegations from abroad, teachers, soldiers, Holocaust survivors, new immigrants and the community. The center also serves as a home for Holocaust survivors who are the mainstay in daily activities due to maintaining continuous and regular contact with them.
The center is highly esteemed and appreciated for its educational work both in Israel and around the world. In 1996, the Certificate of Excellence in the Knesset was awarded to the director of the Mashmaut Center Dr. Lea Ganor for establishing the Center Culture and for writing unique curricula about the Holocaust and encouraging students to commemorate Holocaust victims by writing essays by the Speaker of the Knesset, Prof. Shevach Weiss, Ms. Yehudit Hausner and the Department of Torah Culture. In 2000 Dr. Lea Ganor was awarded in excellence in the educational filed from Yad Vashem, in 2020 she was awarded with the Night Cross Order of the Merit from the president of the Republic of Poland for her efforts in developing and strengthen the Israeli-Polish dialouge.
