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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.

Vale of Glamorgan Council - Exhibition - HMD 2024 Public

Vale of Glamorgan Council - Exhibition - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 – Fragility of Freedom
Penarth Pier Pavilion - Friday 26 January – Wednesday 31 January 2024
https://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/enjoying/Arts-and-Culture/Art-Central-Gallery.aspx

HMD exhibition Ph...

Art Central Gallery - Arts - HMD 2024 Public

Art Central Gallery - Arts - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day exhibition event will take place on Saturday 26th January until 31st January at Penarth Pier Pavilion building Cardiff. CF643AU

Exhibition opens from 10 am - 4pm - access via the pier through the Cafe.

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Bennett Memorial School - Week of Assemblies - HMD 2024 Private

Bennett Memorial School - Week of Assemblies - HMD 2024

Monday, 22 January 2024,

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...

Private

Cornwallis Academy - Holocaust Guest Speaker - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

Select students are being given the opportunity to hear from David Wirth, whose parents were survivors of the Nazi persecution in the Holocaust.
Students will benefit from a preparatory lesson the day before to ensure that they are better ab...

Public

Great Yarmouth Borough Council - HMD Service - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Holocaust Memorial Day occurs every year on January 27 - the anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau - and this year's service will take place at the Caister Municipal Cemetery in Ormesby Road, Caister.

Public

More Music - HMD 2024 hosted by More Music - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

Lancaster's annual Holocaust Memorial Day event 2024

Event hosted by More Music held at Lancaster Town Hall. Thursday 25th January 6.00pm-8.00pm

Candlelighting ceremony remembering all who lost their lives during the holocaust, subse...

More Music - A ceremony of reflection and candle lighting - HMD 2024 Public

More Music - A ceremony of reflection and candle lighting - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

Candle lighting and prayers and commemorations at Lancaster Gardens of Remembrance adjacent to Lancaster Town Hall. 
Join us for a ceremony of reflection and candle lighting followed by music, spoken word and reflections in the banqueting su...

University of Southampton - Commemorative Event - HMD 2024 Public

University of Southampton - Commemorative Event - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

This year Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day is organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton and Solent University.

Our commemorative event includes testimony from Marie-Chantal...

Public

The Amelia Scott - Author Talk with Diane Samuels - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

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...

Public

The Amelia Scott - Kindertransport: Rehearsed Reading - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

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...

Public

The Amelia Scott - Ashes to Light - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

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...

Public

Haywards Heath Town Council - Survivor Speaker - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Starts 10.30am; Friday 26 January

First part: Ceremony at Town's war memorial attended by local dignitaries, schoolchildren, Imam, members of both Jewish and Muslim communities, local residents. Laying of stones and flowers side by side on...

Public

Southwold HMD Group - Southwold Theatre - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

I have been asked to take over organising HMD in Southwold on Jan 27th next year, which we will hold as usual at Southwold Theatre. So far we plan the programme as follows, while people gather in the foyer, we will play Henrik Gorecki's 3rd sympho...

Jazz Swing Dance - 1940s Swing Dance - HMD 2024 Public

Jazz Swing Dance - 1940s Swing Dance - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

VINTAGE 1940s DANCE PARTY - MORECAMBE - Saturday 27th January
we look forward to the Morecambe Jive - at the War Memorial Hall, Church Street, Morecambe, LA4 5PR.
Optional Dress Code - something vintage
All are welcome and the ni...

Public

Lowestoft Town Council - HMD Commemorative Service - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

All are welcome to attend Lowestoft Town Council's annual commemorative event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Taking place at the Parcels Office, Lowestoft Railway Station (where over 500 children arrived in December 1938 as part of the Kin...