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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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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.

Southend City Council - Service of Commemoration - HMD 2024 Public

Southend City Council - Service of Commemoration - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

Southend City Council will hold a Service of Commemoration on Sunday 28th January, 3pm at the Civic Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 6ER.

This annual event will include music, poetry and readings, with a presentation from a local secondary s...

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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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University of Winchester - Podcast - HMD 2024

Friday, 19 January 2024,

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 is Fragility of Freedom.
To mark this, modern historian Dr Emily Stiles has recorded a podcast with Philosophy of Education research student Lucy Dixon, in which they explore the concept of freedom p...

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CWTSH - HMD Memorial Talk and Candle Lighting - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

A talk by Becca Rosenthal from Wales Hate Crime Team, Paolo Piana from Llanelli Multicultural Network and the lighting of a memorial candle by the Lord Lieutenant of Dyfed, Sara Edwards. Attendees include civic dignitaries and members of Bryn and ...

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Swansea University - HMD Talk: Peter Kammerling - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

This year's Holocaust Memorial Day theme is Fragility of Freedom. Swansea University will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday, 25th January 2024, with an online Zoom event from 11 am to 12 pm. Our guest speaker, Peter Kammerling, will s...

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St John Lloyd Catholic School - HMD Assembly - HMD 2024

Tuesday, 23 January 2024,

On Tuesday 23 January, St John LLoyd Catholic School will be remembering those who were and still are affected by the Holocaust.
We will be hosting a whole school assembly for staff and students.

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Embley - Holocaust Memorial Day Assembly - HMD 2024

Monday, 22 January 2024,

Embley pupils will take part in the school's annual commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day using the theme of Fragility of Freedom.
Senior School pupils will join a whole-school assembly on Monday before a week of discussions, activities an...

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...