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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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North Wales Police - Public Display - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Online briefing to all North Wales Police employees to highlight HMD and the history as well as this years theme.

Local Policing stations will have a poster and booklet on display in public areas, including force headquarters.

On 27 ...

Finn Ambers - CANDLELIGHT - HMD 2024 Private

Finn Ambers - CANDLELIGHT - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

On 26 January, 2024, song composer and producer Finn Ambers will release CANDLELIGHT, a folk song with a Holocaust theme.

Finn's purpose in writing CANDLELIGHT is to commemorate the suffering of those affected by the Holocaust and similar t...

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Pocklington School - Images of Evil? - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

The 27 January marks the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945 and has become the international day to remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside other victims of Nazi persecution, and the milli...

University of York - Ruth Wiener’s Story - HMD 2024 Public

University of York - Ruth Wiener’s Story - HMD 2024

Tuesday, 23 January 2024,

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 6.30pm to 7.30pm

Speaker: Barbara Warnock, Wiener Holocaust Library

Free admission, booking required

Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture

This event is organised in response to the 2024 HMD theme of ‘...

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Bickleigh Down CofE Primary School - Workshop - HMD 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

Year 6 at Bickleigh Down CofE Primary School will be working with PCFCD and hearing from Jonathan Marshall. Jonathan was a good friend of Solly Irving and will be sharing Solly's story with the children. After Jonathan's talk, Year 6 will be rea...

St John University York - York Civic Event - HMD 2024 Public

St John University York - York Civic Event - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

On Thursday 25th January 2024, all are welcome at York St John University to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

This event will be held in the Creative Centre Auditorium.

There will be speakers and performances, including an address from t...

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Craven College - Arts - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

We are holding a vigil at Craven College in Skipton between 12-1pm on Friday 26th January where students and staff can come and light candles. Some of our arts students have made leaves (from different materials) to represent fallen people we’ve s...

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Lytham St Annes High School - School Assemblies - HMD 2024

Monday, 22 January 2024,

All forms will see two Loom assemblies about HMD.
These looms will include examples of what freedom means to staff and examples of how freedoms have been taken away during the Holocaust.
Pupils will have guided discussions in form time...

Westgate Evangelical Chapel - Commemorative - HMD 2024 Public

Westgate Evangelical Chapel - Commemorative - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

A Christian-based service of remembrance for Holocaust Memorial Day with a mixture of an HMD presentation based on the theme for 2024, alongside some prayers, and time of reflection and candle lighting, as we vow 'Never Again!'

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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Cleddau Community Arts - Commemoration - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

A public gathering to commemorate the Holocaust and learn together.

In person event being held at Pembrokeshire College on Saturday 27th January from 12pm to 3pm.

Organised by Cleddau Community Arts - contact Barbara Shone on 07969...