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.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 Saturday January 27th
Fragility of Freedom
Join Settle Quakers in a Peace Vigil
6.45pm
Meet in Settle Market Square with a lighted candle and walk in silence with us to the Meeting House.
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Genocide never just happens. There is always a set of circumstances which occur or which are created to build the climate in which genocide can take place. To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, we present an exhibition of 10 contemporary objects ...
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...
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...
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...
HMD Jersey takes place in the Occupation Tapestry Gallery on the New North Quay. This year's guest speaker is Smajo Beŝo, founder of the Bosnian Genocide Educational Trust. The Dean of Jersey, the Very Rev Mike Keirle, will give the Closing Addres...
A showing of the One Life film about Nicholas Winton and an accompanying talk by Vivien Sieber whose grandmother was one of the warden carers who looked after the Kindertransport girls at the hostel in Windermere village.
Westmorland and Furness Council is lighting up its Town Halls in purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD).
From dusk on Friday 26th January to the morning of Monday 29th January, Barrow Town Hall, Kendal Town Hall and Penrith Town Hall w...
Hall worship to take place throughout the week for all Houses.
Tutor group worship based on the life of Leon Greenman and the Fragility of Freedom.
Year 10 and 11 to watch the live webcast of a survivor.
• 10:30 hrs - Stalls Open, view displays and engage with stall holders and communities
• 12:00 hrs - The candle lighting ceremony in remembrance
On completion visitors can continue to view the stands and this will be a further engagem...
This year Huntcliff School has marked Holocaust Memorial Day with a week of form time activities for Year 7 to 10 including an introduction to key words relevant to the Holocaust adapted from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust activity pack, watchin...
A Service of Reflection based on the national theme of Fragility of Freedom, with a leaning towards the Roma and Gypsy community.
Music led by St Lawrence's Choir, Sheila Morbey (violin) and Geoff Gordon (Director of Music)
Appleby ...
Fishburn Parish Council will light The Queen Elizabeth II Beacon Of Hope, with a 15 minute flame of remembrance and a reading to mark Holocaust Memorial day 2024.
On Friday 26th January at 10am TV personality Robert Rinder MBE will be leading Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations in County Durham this year. Robert will attend a commemorative event at Durham Cathedral alongside Bernie Graham and Charlotte La...
St Peter's, Askham will hold a service based on the national "Fragility of Freedom" theme and some of the thoughts and writings of Anne Frank.
Included will be musical contributions from Sheila Morbey (violin) and Geoff Gordon (piano).
We will be hosting a display of books and HMD resources at our largest library, Gateshead Central Library.
The Library is the main public library for Gateshead's Jewish Community.
The live event is by invitation only, but the content will be available to view on YouTube from the 28 January.
This will include memorial prayers, keynote speaker Susie Kaufman who will talk about her three parents' experiences during the H...
Jazz Event: A Homage to the Musicians of Warsaw Ghetto
Friday 26th January, 7.30pm, The Globe
This concert will look at music influenced by jazz within Warsaw and the Warsaw Ghetto. It will include pieces such as 'Mary' and 'Kocham Tw...
Fragments of a Diary - Closing Concert
Sunday 28th January, 7.30pm, Jesmond United Reformed Church
Josima Feldschuh was a wunderkind pianist and composer from a Jewish family in Warsaw. She died in 1943 at the age of 15, whilst fleein...
Musique d’un Autre Monde - Second Concert
Sunday 21st January, 7.30pm, Newcastle University Kings Hall
Following on from the Opening Concert, this second concert once again focuses on Polish composers affected by the Holocaust. The c...