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80 Candles for 80 Years

80 Candles for 80 Years

A powerful arts and education exhibition, commemorating 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, tours the UK.

80 Candles
Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day

Watch the highlights film from the National Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day 2025. We hope you will join us in commemoration on 27 January 2026.

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Light the Darkness

Light the Darkness

A national moment for the nation to come together - to remember the darkness of the past and to create light together, standing against prejudice and hatred today.

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Artefacts

Artefacts

Retrace the steps of six people whose lives were irreversibly altered as a result of Nazi persecution through the possessions that meant the most to them

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The Holocaust and Where Persecution Led

Holocaust Memorial Day is a national day that takes place on 27 January. We commemorate the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered during the Holocaust, and the millions more murdered under Nazi persecution. Prejudice still continues today within our communities and across the UK. We also learn and commemorate where persecution led in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

The Holocaust

Between 1941 and 1945, six million Jewish men, women and children were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Their attempt to murder all the Jews in Europe, shook the foundations of civilisation.

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Nazi Persecution

The Nazis targeted anyone they believed threatened their ideal of a ‘pure Aryan race’, including Roma and Sinti people, disabled people, gay people, political opponents and others.

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Cambodia

From 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, imposed an extremist programme to reconstruct Cambodia. Millions of people died through starvation, disease and exhaustion, and thousands were executed.

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Rwanda

In a violent outpouring in 1994, approximately one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered in just 100 days in the Genocide in Rwanda.

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Bosnia

In July 1995, against the backdrop of an ongoing civil war, Bosnian Serb forces led by Ratko Mladić murdered around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica.

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Darfur

In 2003 a civil war began in the region of Darfur. Arab militia, known as the Janjaweed attacked black African people, destroying entire villages, murdering civilians and displacing many more.

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Life Stories

The experiences of Holocaust and genocide survivors, as well as those who were murdered, give us a unique insight into the lives of those who have endured persecution.

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Yisrael Abelesz The Holocaust

Yisrael Abelesz

Yisrael Abelesz was just 14 years old when he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most infamous of all Nazi camps. Whilst there he escaped selection for the gas chambers and survived typhoid and a death march.

Marianne Grant The Holocaust

Marianne Grant

Marianne Grant was a young artist from Prague. Having survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the final days of Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, using her skills as an artist to survive, she came to Glasgow where she raised her family.

Sabina Kadić-Mackenzie Bosnia

Sabina Kadić-Mackenzie

Sabina had a happy childhood in Bosnia until the Bosnian War forced her family to flee the county. They travelled at first to Slovenia, before they were finally resettled in the UK. Now living in Scotland, Sabina is a social justice campaigner focused on the rights of refugees and people who have experienced homelessness.

Tomi Komoly BEM The Holocaust

Tomi Komoly BEM

Tomi Komoly, born in Budapest in 1936, survived the Holocaust in hiding with his Mother. Post-war, he struggled under Communist rule, leading Tomi to escape to Austria in 1956. He completed his education, reunited with his mother, and was awarded a British Empire Medal in 2020 for his contributions to Holocaust education.