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Each year tens of thousands of activities take place across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). As we get closer to January, explore our interactive map to see HMD activities happening in 2025. Enter your post code to find activities near you - those marked 'public' are open to everyone.

80 Candles Quilt Workshops with Every Stitch A Story - HMD 2025 Public

80 Candles Quilt Workshops with Every Stitch A Story - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 30 October 2024,

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Join Community Arts Practitioner Laura Burrill to explore stories of some of those affected by the Holocaust and help create a slow stitch patchwork memory quilt to bear witn...

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Memorial Quilt Workshop - HMD 2025 Public

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Memorial Quilt Workshop - HMD 2025

Friday, 18 October 2024,

Join Community Arts Practitioner Laura Burrill to explore stories of some of those affected by the Holocaust and help create a slow stitch patchwork memory quilt to bear witness for those who endured genocide, and honour the survivors and all thos...

Jewish Museum London, The Leon Greenman Archive - HMD 2025 Public

Jewish Museum London, The Leon Greenman Archive - HMD 2025

Thursday, 16 January 2025,

For Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, Jewish Museum London are proud to present for the first time, items from the newly formed Leon Greenman Archive, on display at Bradford Reform Synagogue. Split into five distinct periods of British Holocaust surviv...

Public

Boston Spa Methodist Church - Coffee morning talk - HMD 2025

Saturday, 25 January 2025,

Author Ainslie Hepburn will give a talk about her latest book 'In the Footsteps of the Holocaust: The Story and Letters of a German Jewish Family' which details her family's experiences. It is the biography of Hermann Hartog (a Jewish teacher in ...

Private

Bury Council - Poetry Recital and Share of Memories - HMD 2025

Thursday, 30 January 2025,

Bury is hosting our annual Holocaust Memorial Event on Thursday 30th January.

The event is invite-only to attend in person but the event will be streamed online at www.bury.gov.uk

The event sees young people from local schools narra...

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - A Musical Exhibition - HMD 2025 Public

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - A Musical Exhibition - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

Postscript is a concert to be hosted in honour of Holocaust Memorial Day in 2025, combining music and testimony of Holocaust survivors, victims and those affected. In holding a space for education and memorial, we aim to highlight the importance o...

Private

The Anne Frank Trust Cumbria and Chetwynde School - Assembly - HMD 2025

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

The Anne Frank Trust, Cumbria and Chetwynde Secondary school, Barrow are hosting a commemoration assembly on Monday 27th January - 2:30pm-3:30pm. This will be led by Anne Frank student ambassadors and other students from the Secondary and Primary ...

Public

Milton Keynes Rose Trust - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

The annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place at the Milton Keynes Rose, Campbell park, Milton Keynes at 3 p.m. on Sunday 26 January 2025.
The ceremony will include readings, songs, a silence and the use of candles to mark the 80th...

TIMNA BRAUER: FLOWERS OF THE ORIENT at Wells Maltings - HMD 2025 Public

TIMNA BRAUER: FLOWERS OF THE ORIENT at Wells Maltings - HMD 2025

Saturday, 25 January 2025,

International musical artist TIMNA BRAUER presents a programme of work marking the influence of Jewish music and tradition across global cultures.

A very special event in association with Association of Jewish Refugees and Austrian Cultural...

Bletchley Park -Talk by Christian Jennings - HMD 2025 Public

Bletchley Park -Talk by Christian Jennings - HMD 2025

Saturday, 25 January 2025,

Decrypting the German coding system called Domino, used by the SS and German Police to encipher secret messages about the Final Solution, was one of Bletchley Park’s less well-known wartime achievements. For four years, from 1941 to 1944, Codebrea...

Private

HMP Grendon - Survivor Speech - HMD 2025

Thursday, 30 January 2025,

We are having a speaker provided by Generation2Generation provided who will give a presentation and talk, followed by Q&A. This will be for both staff and prisoners. Resources and films will also be available throughout the month.