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.
Lantern-making workshop, from 11.30am-4.30pm
Join Tom to make your lantern for the Procession of Light. There is no need to book, just pop along to the Silberrad Student Centre to take part in the workshop.
Procession of Light, from 5...
Our iconic lecture hall will be lit up in purple from Wednesday 24 January - Wednesday 31 January 2024.
Our Rights Respecting School group have organised an assembly to mark the Holocaust.
The assembly takes place over 3 mornings informing S1-S3 of the importance of marking this day. Information has gone out to parents asking for them to light...
Esther Bloch, daughter of Edith Sekules, will discuss how her family escaped from Vienna on the outbreak of the Second World War, spent time in detention camps in Russia before settling in Northern Ireland in the late 1940s and setting up the Kilk...
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...
Prior to this event, every single pupil in the school will be taking part in a lesson to commemorate HMD. The lesson will focus on this year's theme, 'Fragility of Freedom.' Pupils will be asked to create a paper bubble and on that bubble they wer...
Holocaust Memorial Day occurs every year on January 27 - the anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau - and this year's service will take place at the Caister Municipal Cemetery in Ormesby Road, Caister.
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.
Suffolk Holocaust Memorial Day 2024
“FRAGILITY OF FREEDOM”
Lecture Theatre 1, Ground Floor
Waterfront Building
University of Suffolk,
IPSWICH, IP4 1QJ
Wednesday 24th January 2024 14:30-16:00
Our event i...
Held at the University Waterfront Building, Ipswich, Suffolk. Running from 2.30pm to 4pm the event draws together a number of community groups and statutory services to share reflections, poetry, music, art and other ways of marking the Holocaust ...
Assembly on the Fragility of Freedom, using resources from the HMD website, including the HMD 2024 Theme Vision documnet and the HMD senior school assembly PPT slides.
Dr Alina Bothe, curator of the exhibition and Mr Alan Reich, son of a Polenaktion survivor will speak at the opening of the exhibition.
The Scottish Parliament (Ben Macpherson MSP) will host the Edinburgh Interfaith Association at the Scottish Parliament on 23 January 2024 from 6pm to 8pm for a lecture by the curator of Expelled! Polenaktion 1938 holocaust exhibition.
The cu...
For the two weeks leading up to January 27th the Saughton Library will display all of the information sheets and poetry shared by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, as well as a display of relevant books.
We will also again be providing paper...
Ballyclare Library is marking Holocaust Memorial Day by holding a display on Saturday 27th January from 9.30am until 1pm.
Monday 15th January, at 9am.
A Holocaust speaker from the charity Generation 2 Generation visited our school to deliver a presentation on his families history within the Holocaust.
It highlighted the traumatic events ordinary Jewish ...
The Mayor of Thurrock Cllr Sue Little will lead the service , at 11am
At the end of the programme the Mayor will be asked to lay a commemorative stone into concrete followed by members of the congregation who wish to lay a pebble as apart ...
Edinburgh Libraries will have an "Edinburgh Reads" unlimited access audiobook available on their Libby platform (www.edinburgh.gov.uk/libby) between 22nd-31st January to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
This is available to anyone with an Edinbu...
11:00-12:00
Join us on January 30, 2024, on Teams, Holocaust Memorial Event and pay tribute to the incredible story of the Granaat family. This event aims to remember the bravery, endurance, loss, and love experienced by Tootje (Cato) Granaa...
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.