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.
Cobweb Orchestra Concert
Saturday 27th January, 1pm, Jesmond United Reformed Church
Conductor: Andrew Jackson
Soloist: Iona Brown
Cobweb Orchestra present a unique range of challenging repertoire, including Szymon Laks’ P...
Musique d’un Autre Monde - Opening Concert
Saturday 20th January, 7.30pm, Newcastle University Kings Hall
This year’s Opening Concert is dedicated to Polish composers who suffered in the Holocaust. Behind each piece of music is a life...
Join Skimstone Arts Artistic Director Claire Webster Saaremets, Associate Artist Ako Ismail, musicians and story sharers around a campfire and listen to live and recorded performances of true stories, new and original songs, music, spoken word and...
On Friday 26 January 2024, 12.30pm tune in to a special Holocaust Memorial Day broadcast on Skimstone Radio. Join Skimstone Arts’ presenters Claire Webster Saaremets and Ako Ismail around their campfire and listen to real stories and audience resp...
We’d like to invite you to join us for the opening of our A Night of Fear & Freedom exhibition at Newcastle City Library on Thursday 18 January at 12.30pm.
This powerful new photographic and text exhibition captures fragments of real s...
Join Skimstone Arts Artistic Director Claire Webster Saaremets, Associate Artist Ako Ismail, musicians and story sharers around a campfire and listen to live and recorded performances of true stories, new and original songs, music, spoken word and...
The Making History Together Travelling exhibition launched by The Together Plan in 2022 commemorates and promotes learning about the Holocaust in the German-occupied Soviet Union with a focus on Belarus. Approximately 2.7 million Jews were killed ...
A Child in Striped Pyjamas - Gosforth Civic Theatre
There will be two performances:
Thursday 25th January, 7.30pm
Saturday 27th January, 8pm
John Boyne’s masterpiece, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, still features regular...
A Child in Striped Pyjamas - Gosforth Civic Theatre
There will be two performances:
Thursday 25th January, 7.30pm
Saturday 27th January, 8pm
John Boyne’s masterpiece, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, still features regular...
The Diocese of Hexham and Newcatle Holocaust Memorial Evening is held in St Mary's RC School Newcastle at 7pm Tuesday 23/01/2024.
The Guest Speaker is Mrs Deanna Van Der Velde (Her mother's story).
Also present will be Rt Rev Stephen...
Each form class will have a week's worth of registration activities focused on this year's HMD theme "The Fragility of Freedom."
This includes an assembly which will be delivered by 2 students who visited Auschwitz- Birkenau as part of the L...
Our keynote this year is Dr Vivien Sieber who will be supported by 10 schools presenting their work around this years theme, the Elected Mayor of North Tyneside as well as civic leads and members of the Jewish community with representation from BA...
Memorial service with talks/video/reflection on Sunday 28th January at 16:00. -18:00
Refreshments served after
Holocaust Memorial Service on 25 January 2024 - Annual Holocaust Memorial Event to include Raising of Flag, Service and lighting of Candle, Input and readings from young people, refugee families , local schools, Reflection of the theme through sto...
Pupils are organising and leading an assembly to acknowledge World Holocaust Day.
This year The Saint Patrick Centre is delighted to host Melyvn Goldberger who will give a talk to local high school students about his fathers experience during the Holocaust. This event will take place at The Saint Patrick Centre on the 18th of J...
Year 7 pupils studied Holocaust survivor poetry before compiling their own poems and exploring the theme of ‘Fragility of Freedom’ through artwork.
Newtownards Library marks Holocaust Memorial Day with a display to remember those affected by the Holocaust and genocide.
Saturday 27th January
10.00am - 4.00pm
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...
Bangor Carnegie Library marks Holocaust Memorial Day with an interactive exhibition hosted by Ards and North Down Borough Council with contributions from local schools and organisations.
Tuesday 16th January 9.00 am until Wednesday 31st Janu...