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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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Borth Community Hub - Display marking HMD - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Holocaust Memorial Day 2024

From Friday 26th January there will be a display in Borth Hub to mark

Holocaust Memorial Day organised by a Borth resident whose grandfather was
murdered in Auschwitz.
The theme this year is TH...

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Westbury Manor Museum - Commemorative - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Westbury Manor Museum will be lit up in purple from 8pm on 27 January in support of Holocaust Memorial Day.

Individuals are encouraged to take part by safely lighting a candle in their window to remember those who were murdered for who they...

Centre for the Movement of People - Film screening and talk - HMD 2024 Public

Centre for the Movement of People - Film screening and talk - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

The Centre for the Movement of People (CMOP) at Aberystwyth University invites you to this special film screening and talk by Einion Gruffudd of the National Library of Wales. We will be showing the film ‘Refugees from National Socialism in Wales’...

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Havant Borough Council - Holocaust Memorial Commemoration - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Havant Borough Council are planning a short non-denominational service of commemoration at the Holocaust Memorial at Havant Cemetery, Eastern Road, Havant PO9 2JQ at 11.00 am on Friday 26th January 2024.

The service will focus on the theme...

Chichester Festival Theatre - Women Who Resisted - HMD 2024 Public

Chichester Festival Theatre - Women Who Resisted - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Chichester Marks Holocaust Memorial Day with a specially-commissioned one-woman show from novelist, historian and Cicestrian, Kate Mosse.

Celebrating extraordinary women of World War II whose courage and bravery deserve to be better known, ...

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Bournemouth and Poole HMD Committee - Assembly - HMD 2024

Tuesday, 6 February 2024,

I did a HMD assembly at Emmanuel Middle School for 200 Year 5 and Year 6 pupils. I have developed a PowerPoint presentation about Judith Kerr and how she and her family managed to escape Berlin all because of the act of a German policeman who very...

The Arden Youth Theatre - Play: Arbeit Macht Frei - HMD 2024 Public

The Arden Youth Theatre - Play: Arbeit Macht Frei - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

The Arden Youth Theatre are performing a short play called ARBEIT MACHT FREI about the Jewish persecution during WW2, on INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 27TH JANUARY 2024.
The play will be performed THREE times on the day: 2.30pm, 5.00p...

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University of Sussex - Holocaust Memorial Day - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 7 February 2024,

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...

Bangor University - Remembrance Service - HMD 2024 Public

Bangor University - Remembrance Service - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

A service to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 will be held at Powis Hall, Main Arts Building, College Road, in Bangor on Friday, 26 January, from 10:30 am to 11:30 am.

The theme of this year’s service is ‘Fragility of Freedom’ and wi...

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University of Sussex - Survivor Testimony and Exhibition - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 7 February 2024,

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...

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Brighton and Hove Libraries - Holocaust Exhibition - HMD 2024

Monday, 12 February 2024,

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 ...

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Lewes Old Grammar School - HMD presentation - HMD 2024

Monday, 5 February 2024,

A local resident, Tim Locke, is giving a presentation about his family's history during the Holocaust. He is a member of the HMD group in Lewes and presented last year as well. The presentation will be delivered to the whole of Year 9 and last app...

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Bournemouth and Poole HMD committee - Survivor Speaker - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 31 January 2024,

The second of our HMD events for students which will run from 10-11.30.
We will start the event with an Act of Commemoration at which 7 candles will be lit.
Our local survivor Henry Schachter will be telling his story of being a hidden...