Each year tens of thousands of activities take place across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). Explore our interactive map to see HMD activities that took place near you for HMD 2024.
Commemorations for Holocaust Memorial Day will be held on Monday 29 January 2024, at the War Memorial Garden on Church Walk.
Members of the public are welcome to attend the multi-faith service, which will commence at 10:30am.
Copies of...
I read eve Bunting's the story of 'Terrible Things' to 360 Key stage 2 children at Bishop Aldhelm's C.E school.
This was on 2nd February.
I started at 10.00 and finished about 10.20.
This is the 10th annual HMD event that I have organised for students in Dorset and BCP.
It is taking place on Monday 29th January from 10.-11.30.
It will start an act of commemoration at which 7 candles will be lit.
Maralyn Tur...
Lantern-making workshop, from 11.00am-4.30pm
Make your lantern for the Procession of Light in the Community Space at The Forum.
Procession of Light, gather from 6.15pm
Join us for a Procession of Light outside The Forum, led by...
We are delighted to welcome Anita Peleg, Sandra Miller and Dr Imogen Dalziel to give presentations in our school theatre on Tuesday 6th February 2024 from 2pm -430pm.
The activity was a talk given by a second generation Holocaust survivor.
The talk lasted for an hour.
Our event is taking place on Sunday 28th January from 2.00-4.30
The theme for HMD 2024 is ‘Fragility of Freedom’. We will be remembering the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda (7 April 1994 – 15 July 1994) and the 70th anniversary of...
Daily assemblies for students in years 7-12 on the theme of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides.
Display of art objects created by students for past HMD competitions:
2020, 75 Memorial Flame sculpture winner
2023 Extra Ordina...
Join us for an Author Talk with Diane Samuels
2pm 27 January 2024
FREE - booking required
Diane Samuels is a playwright whose work has been widely produced. Her play Kindertransport won the Verity Bargate and Meyer-Whitworth Aw...
Kindertransport by Diane Samuels: A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past.
4.00pm, 27 January 2024
Free - booking required
Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine...
Ashes to Light Concert
Nelly Ben-Or was imprisoned in the Lwow ghetto as a child and subsequently escaped to Warsaw where she spent years living under a false identity, narrowly evading recapture by the Nazis.
She would eventually set...
The story is set in January 1944 at an exclusive Catholic boys boarding school near Fontainebleau. Twelve-year-old Julien (Gaspard Manesse), a bright, popular pupil at the school, is asked by headmaster Père Jean to look after a new boy, the shy, ...
This small exhibition seeks to include the Roma and Sinti experience within the broader Holocaust narrative; however, its main purpose is to invite thought and enquiry around contemporary issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion pertaining to ...
[Extra]Ordinary Portraits is a collection of artworks that reveal the ‘extraordinary elements of seemingly ordinary people’.
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust partnered with The Royal Drawing School and asked young people across the UK to learn a...
Holocaust Memorial Day at The University of Sussex 2024
Wednesday 7 February 14:00 until 17:00
Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of Sussex on Wed...
Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of Sussex on Wednesday 7 February 2024, 2-5pm.
The programme will be split into two sessions:
Session 1 - Test...
A silent and open vigil to remember and hope on Holocaust Memorial Day. This will be held from 12.30pm to 5.00pm.
Drop in for however long you would like to, there is no programme but light a candle and be still in this Quaker meeting house...
From Darkness to Hope: The Journey of Lucy White
Hungarian-born Lucy White survived two Nazi concentration camps and two slave labour camps during the Second World War, before being liberated by the British Army. Her whole family were kille...
Welcome by the Mayor of the Borough of Telford and Wrekin
Introduction by a Council Member
Guest speaker - a Rwandan survivor, Anais Mutumba
Other speaker - second generation of survivors of the Holocaust, Dr Eve Clevenger
...
A short, outdoor ceremony in our Holocaust Memorial Walled Garden at Bramcote Hills Park, Ilkeston Rd, Bramcote NG9 3JT.
The event begins at 11:00am and will be concluded by 11:40am. It includes the local secondary school band singing four...