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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.

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Norwich High School - HMD Exhibition - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 24 January 2024,

Norwich High School hosts an HMD exhibition with displays on the theme ‘Fragility of Freedom’ and information about the Holocaust and many other genocides. The exhibition is placed in a ‘Memorial Hall’ in the Sixth Form centre for the week 22-26 J...

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HANHAM LIBRARY – BOOK DISPLAY – HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Hanham Library will have a selection of books on display.
From Novels to Non-fiction, to help people learn more about the atrocities perpetrated in the past.

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Trowbridge Town Council - Light the Darkness - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Trowbridge Town Council will be lighting up The Civic Centre building in Purple to remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups and during more recent g...

Thurrock Council - Annual Holocaust Memorial Day Service - HMD 2024 Public

Thurrock Council - Annual Holocaust Memorial Day Service - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

The Mayor of Thurrock Cllr Sue Little will lead the service , at 11am

At the end of the programme the Mayor will be asked to lay a commemorative stone into concrete followed by members of the congregation who wish to lay a pebble as apart ...

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Bath and North East Somerset Council - HMD Commemoration - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

‘Fragility of Freedom’ Remembering the Holocaust in Bath and North East Somerset
A special ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau the largest Nazi death camp is taking place in Bath on Thursday 25th Jan...

University of Essex - Reading of Names - HMD 2024 Public

University of Essex - Reading of Names - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Each year on Holocaust Memorial Day we come together to remember the victims of the Holocaust and other genocides with the Reading of Names. This year, the Reading of Names will take place the day before Holocaust Memorial Day, on Friday 26 Januar...

University of Essex - Lantern-making Workshop - HMD 2024 Public

University of Essex - Lantern-making Workshop - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 24 January 2024,

Lantern-making workshop, from 11.30am-4.30pm
Join Tom to make your lantern for the Procession of Light. There is no need to book, just pop along to the Silberrad Student Centre to take part in the workshop.

Procession of Light, from 5...

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Norwich City Council - Holocaust Memorial Day Service - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

The Holocaust Memorial Day Service is a collaboration between Norwich City Council, St Peter Mancroft Church and members of the Jewish community.
This year the Service is held in St Peter Mancroft Church and starts at 11am (please be seated ...

The Little Theatre, Picturehouse - My Nazi Legacy - HMD 2024 Public

The Little Theatre, Picturehouse - My Nazi Legacy - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

A poignant, thought-provoking account of friendship and the toll of inherited guilt, My Nazi Legacy explores the relationship between two men, each of whom are the children of very high-ranking Nazi officials and possess starkly contrasting attitu...

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North Somerset Libraries - Visual Storytelling Event - HMD 2024

Tuesday, 30 January 2024,

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Pill Library invites you to an informal personal story-telling by Lorna Brunstein, local artist and daughter of Holocaust survivor Esther Brunstein.
Recalling a trip to Poland Lorna will share a specific episo...

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De Stafford School - Holocaust Speaker Visit: David Wirth - HMD 2024

Monday, 15 January 2024,

Monday 15th January, at 9am.

A Holocaust speaker from the charity Generation 2 Generation visited our school to deliver a presentation on his families history within the Holocaust.
It highlighted the traumatic events ordinary Jewish ...

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Charles Darwin School - Testimony - HMD 2024

Monday, 15 January 2024,

We were lucky to use generation to generation and had Seymour Kelly visit our school.
He spoke of his mothers experiences of the Holocaust using her video testimony and his recollections.

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North Somerset Libraries - Book Display - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

We have book displays in our young adult and adult sections of Portishead Library to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2024.
Books, facts, artwork and information present by our staff and Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme young volunteers.

Pl...

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Belfairs Academy - Assemblies and Commemoration - HMD 2024

Monday, 22 January 2024,

Belfairs Academy will be undertaking assemblies from the week commencing the 22 January that surround the theme 'Fragility of Freedom' that will be presented to all year groups.
Additionally, students will have worked together to create a di...

Tredegar Town Council - Light the Darkness 2024 - HMD 2024 Public

Tredegar Town Council - Light the Darkness 2024 - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

As a tribute in commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day, the public will be invited to join members of Tredegar Town Council to light a candle to mark this historic international event.
Guests are welcome to create their own light - whether ...

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Oakmoor School - Holocaust Memorial Evening - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Oakmoor School is putting together an evening full of childrens work and activities linked to the Holocaust for families to come and reflect with us.
There will also be a candle lighting and a minute's silence.

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Bedminster Down School - School Assemblies - HMD 2024

Saturday, 20 January 2024,

All students at Bedminster Down School are listening to assemblies created by Y11 students on Holocaust Memorial.
All students will then take part in a Tutor lesson on freedom and human rights.
Each student will write on a luggage tag ...