Our Mission

Here you will find general information on the Holocaust 1933-1945, as well as the written testimony of nineteen Holocaust Survivors who live in Western New York. Oral testimony videotapes of the nineteen Survivors and written biographies of each Survivor are available for classroom use. These tapes were made as part of the HRC's Distance Learning Course, which was funded by grants from Bell Atlantic and a memberline grant from the New York State Assembly.

The Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo is a non-profit agency that deals primarily in helping educate the community of Western New York State on the Holocaust 1933-1945.

It is the mission of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo to:

• Teach the lessons of the Holocaust
• Remember the victims of the Holocaust
• Honor the Survivors of the Holocaust

with a special eye towards serving the community of Buffalo and the Western New York area.

The HRC is a beneficiary agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo and is also funded by private donations and membership dues. We believe that the programs and workshops that we provide community members, students and teachers in our area keeps the message of the Holocaust alive. With each program we strive to bring the lessons of the 6 Million victims down to an understanding of each and every victim as a person - as an irreplacable human life. The truism that: "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" is essential to our mission. We strive to promote the message that we must Never Forget the lessons, the victims, and the Survivors of the Holocaust.