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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.

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Lambeth Community HMD Planning Group - HMD Event - HMD 2024

Sunday, 21 January 2024,

The Lambeth Community HMD Planning Group and Lambeth Council will host an event on 21st January to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2024.

Councillor Claire Holland and the Mayor of Lambeth, Cllr Barznji, will open the event.
We will be joi...

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Surrey History Centre - A House of Hope (Webpage) - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

We have discovered many stories of people who came to England and found sanctuary in the towns and villages of Surrey.
For this year's Holocaust Memorial Day theme of 'Fragility of Freedom', we visit a Guildford home that gave shelter and ho...

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St George's University of London JSoc - HMD Event - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 24 January 2024,

We will start with an address by members of the JSoc committee.
We are grateful to host a speaker from G2G, Dalya Wittinberg, who will be retelling the story of her Grandmother, Cilla Rotblat.
This will be followed by a candle lighting...

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London Borough of Merton - Civic Event / Exhibition - HMD 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

HMD is the day for everyone to remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution, and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. The event is organised / facilitated by the Policy Tea...

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Ewell Castle School - HMD Talk - HMD 2024

Friday, 9 February 2024,

The talk started at 2.30pm and finished at 4.00pm. This also included questions from the audience. The main speaker, Seymour Kelly related the events and impact of the Holocaust on his mother and her family and how she survived. It was extremely i...

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...

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Bourne Hall - Memorial Shrine - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Bourne Hall will be playing host to a memorial shrine for Holocaust Memorial Day - commemorating all those lost in the Holocaust and other genocides.

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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...

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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.

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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.