The Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association
The HSFA is a Leeds-based charity set up in 1996. Our aim is to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and use its lessons to work towards a more tolerant society in which difference and diversity are celebrated.
Our members regularly visit schools to give living witness accounts of their personal experiences as refugees, hidden children and survivors of Nazi concentration camps. The HSFA is affiliated to the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR).
"When I came out of Buchenwald I thought it could never happen again. How wrong I was... Perpetrators in situations like that are a relatively small number; people who actively do something about it are fewer still but then you get the indifferent masses who just turn the other cheek... They have the choices, they have the responsibility and if people take these choices one day there won't be any more Holocausts". John Chillag
Use the menu to the left to find out about our work. Explore eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust through the Survivor Stories section, including filmed interviews with survivors. The Reflections page contains perspectives on the Holocaust from the point of view of different people. Alternatively, browse our specially designed resources for teachers and learners, created in partnership with teachers themselves.
We will be adding more resources in future, so please do return to see how we've changed.