Hebrew Free Burial Association

Non profit organization in the US

infobox organization
|name = Chebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Association, Inc.
|formation = 1889 01 25
|status = 501(c)(3) non profit organization
|leader name = Amy Koplow on January 25, 1889. In 1965, it changed its official name to Chebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Association, Inc.

HFBA's clients have primarily come from among the impoverished, from the margins of society or from immigrant communities. Early in its history, they were victims of disease epidemics, occupationally hazardous conditions, poor medical care, lack of proper sanitary conditions, and high infant and mother mortality rates. In its annual report from 1900, HFBA's directors wrote, "What little they may have had quickly vanished for doctor's services and medicines, and even their belongings were pawned by them to obtain the wherewithal to save their loved one from the grim monster death." In the early years of the organization's existence, the majority of burials were of small children. In 1911, HFBA provided burials for 22 young victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Others buried there died from the (1918) Spanish flu. Bodies were shipped from Manila during the Spanish–American War and at least one soldier's body arrived from New Guinea in the South Pacific during World War II. Large immigrant groups, such as Holocaust survivors and refugees from the former Soviet Union have also been prominently represented in HFBA's cemeteries, including Victor Ourin and Aaron Kuperstock, well known Russian poets. Those who have needed HFBA's help over time have ranged from Mel Brooks' grandparents,

HFBA was working with " a refrigerated trailer big enough to hold 20." When a single day could involve 11 COVID 19 pandemic victims to bury, their old van, which could hold 4 bodies, was insufficient. Pre Corona, a normal day was one or two burials.