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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.

Trinity School - Flame of Hope Canvas - HMD 2024 Private

Trinity School - Flame of Hope Canvas - HMD 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

Pupils wanted to create a canvas to put up in school as a constant reminder of the holocaust, and to make people think about what we need to learn for similar things to not happen again. They took inspiration from the HMD website and created a fla...

Public

Belfast Model School for Girls - Educative Event - HMD 2024

Thursday, 18 January 2024,

Year 11 GCSE History students will be studying the persecution of minorities in Nazi Germany.
They will focus on the persecution of the Jews and other minority groups in Germany 1933-39.
They will also learn about the escalation of per...

Shankill Library - Ambassadors for Peace Remembers - HMD 2024 Public

Shankill Library - Ambassadors for Peace Remembers - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024, - 16:30

Young people from the Lower Shankill and Falls will be undertaking a remembrance event at Shankill Library where they will unveil a photographic exhibition of their visits to Belfast Synagogue, Auschwitz Concentration Camp and will have affirmatio...

Private

Bensham Manor School - Art Work - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Pupils will be making & selling remembrance ribbons.
Year 9 & 10 will collage their interpretation of the theme.
Year 7 & 8 will learn about the Kindertransport.

St. Sophia's Primary - Displays - HMD 2024 Private

St. Sophia's Primary - Displays - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 24 January 2024,

We created individual flames and on each had different ways and reasons we commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. We then put the flames together to create a large candle.

Private

St Catherine's Catholic School - Speaker - HMD 2024

Tuesday, 6 February 2024,

The son of two Holocaust survivors came into school to speak to year 11 students about his parents story.
The name of the organisation that ran this was Generation 2 Generation.

Private

St Catherine's Catholic School - One Life Cinema Trip - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 31 January 2024,

We are taking the whole of year 9 to see the film One Life about the story of Nicholas Winton who arranged the Kindertransport on Wednesday 31st January from 2-4pm. This ties in with Holocaust Memorial Day and also the year 9s who are learning Jud...

Public

Libraries NI - Dementia Workshop - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 24 January 2024,

Glengormley Library marks Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 by hosting a Dementia Friendly Workshop by the NI War Memorial. This will take place on Wednesday 24th January from 10.30-11.30am

Booking is advised - please call 028 9083 3797.

Public

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...

Public

Croydon Council - Holocaust Memorial Day Event - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

The Croydon Pledge, candle lighting, book of Remembrance and minutes silence by the Civic Mayor of Croydon, speeches from the Executive Mayor, the Councillor for communities and culture and a representative from Croydon Synagogue.
Presentat...

University of Essex - Arts - HMD 2024 Public

University of Essex - Arts - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

Lantern-making workshop, from 11.00am-4.30pm
Make your lantern for the Procession of Light in the Community Space at The Forum.

Procession of Light, gather from 6.15pm
Join us for a Procession of Light outside The Forum, led by...

Public

Somerset Council - Commemorative - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

The Somerset Holocaust Memorial event will be held in St Johns Church, Park Street Taunton TA1 4DG on 25th January 2023 12.30 till 13.30. This commemoration is organised by a small collection of community representatives and Somerset Council.

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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...