. "We welcome visitors and researchers to view the archive by appointment only. "@en . . . . "To learn more about how our team can assist you, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us."@en . . "In 1995 a conversation in Leeds prompted what would become the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association (HSFA). Against a backdrop of devastating conflicts in Bosnia and Rwanda, where genocide was happening on an appalling scale, a small group of social workers met in the offices of the Leeds Jewish Welfare Board. This was for a routine conversation about their weekly meetings with clients.\r\n\r\nHowever, the conversation soon focused other matters and, apropos of nothing, it suddenly became apparent that a few people in the room shared something remarkable in common.\r\n\r\nThey were Holocaust survivors.\r\n\r\nAnd what became even more incredible was that, after a little research, they found others in Leeds who were also survivors.\r\n\r\n“It was a big moment,” explains Barbara Cline, who has worked for over 40-years at the Leeds Jewish Welfare Board. “They had been in Britain for 50-years and had never spoken about their experiences. This burden had been bottled up for so long and it was incredibly liberating to finally talk about it with people who could relate and understand.”\r\n\r\nThe foundations for a new mutual support group were established that day and, soon after, meetings were established where survivors came to share their experiences over tea and coffee. In 1996, the HSFA was formally established, and it wasn’t long before they were venturing out into schools, and other organisations to do talks about the Holocaust.\r\n\r\nWhat had started from conversations would go on to develop into a powerful, community-led educational organisation telling a global history through local stories from the North of England.\r\n\r\nAt every stage of our development, we continually return to the core values of bearing witness to the truth and showing solidarity with survivors that shone so brightly on that day in 1995."@en . "Holocaust Centre North"@en . "**Our Collection:**\r\n\r\nWe are a living archive. We have a growing collection of material relating to the history of Holocaust Centre North as well as personal papers of Holocaust refugees and survivors who made the North of England their home.\r\n\r\nFrom cocktail shakers to correspondence, telegrams to travel documents, photographs to filmed testimonies, we preserve and safeguard these individual stories and rare materials for future generations and make them available for education and research.\r\n\r\nAs part of our Homeward Bound archive project, we are entering an exciting, new phase of cataloguing and digitising our personal papers. This will ensure that they can be more easily discovered, explored, and shared by diverse audiences through the Homeward Bound collection browser.\r\n\r\n**What do we collect?**\r\n\r\nThe archive comprises organisational and personal papers, covering the 1880s to the present day. We actively collect physical and digital records, including:\r\n- Material up to the end of the Second World War.\r\n- Records which tell the story of survivors and refugees post-war, e.g., naturalisation or compensation papers.\r\n- Recorded testimonies (video and audio).\r\n- Original documents, e.g., passports, certificates, ID papers.\r\n- Correspondence, e.g., letters and postcards.\r\n- Photographs.\r\n- Objects – the toys, household items and mementoes on display really help bring the history to life.\r\n\r\n**Research strengths:**\r\n\r\nThe collections are a rich resource for educators, creative practitioners, and researchers of Holocaust history. Collection themes include: \r\n- Jewish life in pre-war Europe\r\n- Impact of the Nuremberg Laws\r\n- Emigration attempts, migration routes\r\n- Kindertransport and child refugees\r\n- Internment as enemy aliens in Britain\r\n- Ghetto and camp experiences, slave labour\r\n- Liberation and displacement\r\n- Making a new life in the North of England\r\n- Culture shock and assimilation\r\n- Faith and identity\r\n- Intergenerational relationships and trauma\r\n- Memorialisation, post-memory"@en . . "There are limited spaces on campus for disabled blue badge holders, these are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.\r\n\r\nThere is level access throughout campus and into the exhibition. Our lift is located on Level 4 of the Schwann building. Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions regarding access requirements."@en . "Monday – Thursday 10am – 4pm"@en .