About Us

The Second Generation are the children and grand-children of Holocaust survivors. Our parents survived the ghettos and concentration camps or were in hiding in Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War.  After the war, a particular group of young survivors left eastern Europe together to start new lives.  Many eventually settled in the UK, others in North America, Australia and Israel.  They have retained strong contacts and are known collectively as the 45 Aid Society ('The Boys').   This website has been set up by their children.

Our parents have deputed to us the responsibility of guarding their testimony, of bearing vicarious witness to their life stories and of remembering the lives that were destroyed.  To keep alive the memories of events from the Holocaust, people must be reminded of the facts.  The best way to send this message is through the people who survived and have told their story. 

The Second Generation is an organisation set up to keep these stories alive by way of community events, educational activities and fund raising. Through this website, we hope to encourage the Second Generation to maintain contact with one other, to actively participate in remembering the past, teaching its lessons, so that such a terrible event can never be repeated.  We celebrate our lives and the lives of our families as a constant memory to the 6,000,000 who died.  We celebrate the achievements of the survivors in building strong families and communities, and their triumph of hope over adversity.