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.
The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities are excited to be teaming up with the Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre to bring to you this ‘Bake to Remember’ workshop to mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January).
Our drop in workshop...
This annual concert marks Holocaust Memorial Day with a specially selected programme of music performance.
We invite school bookings for this special event for secondary school pupils, in the lead up to Holocaust Memorial Day.
For this event, we are honoured to be hosting speakers whose parents were survivors of the Holocaust, and who made a li...
WE will once again gather at Erskine Community Garden, to hold a short and simple moment of reflection and silence. Followed by refreshments as a community. All welcome.
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...
Many local communities in Scotland are holding an event to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz on 27th January 1945. Falkirk Council Provost Robert Bissett is teaming up with Central Scotland Interfaith to mark the occasion with a short Act of...
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.
A short commemorative even held in conjunction with Falkirk Council Provost Robert Bissett, with music, silence, and candle lighting. Gather at CSREC in the Howgate Centre for 2pm.
Braes High School will be hosting a Holocaust Memorial Day assembly to remember all those who have lost their lives to genocide.
This event will take place on the 7th February 2024. Doors will open at 1530 and the event will finish at 1630.<...
Commemorate HMD 2024
Starting on 22nd January P6 & 7 pupils will listen to a presentation on what and why we remember on Holocaust Memorial Day.
After a general introduction we will be speaking about Freedom, the ways in which ordinary people lost their lost...
Speaker provided by Generation 2 Generation - Debra Barnes is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
Online presentation delivered to the full school cohort.
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.
Our P6 class, after learning about WW2 and The Holocaust in their topic work, have written an assembly which they are going to deliver to the rest of the school.
The class chose a film which was on the HMT website called 'Your Voice is Amazi...
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...
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...
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...
St Pauls will light up in purple during this powerful national moment of commemoration and solidarity.
27/1/24 Perth and Kinross Council will be lighting up St Pauls Square and Perth Bridge again this year as well as circulating a Sway document with information to all staff.