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.
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...
• 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...
Love in a Cold World.
A collaboration between the painter Leslie Nicholl and the wonderful musicians from the Brighton based Life and Death Orchestra.
Leslie Nicholl has produced 20 paintings based on the internationally acclaimed op...
This event is the annual LGBTQIA+ Holocaust Memorial & Act of Remembrance at Belfast City Hall. This event is organised each year by the LGBTQIA+ charities Cara-Friend, Here NI and The Rainbow Project.
This small gathering remembers al...
Join us for an evening to celebrate the legacy of dancer and teacher, Helen Lewis (1916 – 2009), who survived Auschwitz and went on to teach modern dance in Belfast. On Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 we will screen two films that reflect Helen’s life...
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) would like to invite you to an event exploring the impact of two genocides of the mid 1990s that shocked the world.
Speakers will reflect and remembe...
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...
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To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, writer, and dancer Maddy Tongue joins us to talk about her fifty-year friendship with fellow dancer and teacher, Helen Lewis (1916 – 2009), who survived Auschwitz and went on to teach modern dance in Bel...
Join us at the Northern Ireland War Memorial on Thursday 25 January 2024 from 7pm-8:30pm as we mark Holocaust Memorial Day with a FREE lecture titled 'A Haven from Hitler - The Story of Jewish refugees who came to Northern Ireland in the 1930s and...
We will be covering the Fragility of Freedom in class and pupils will be creating a piece of work based on the theme and displaying these.
Rathcoole library marks holocaust memorial day with a week long display beginning Monday 22nd January, during library opening hours.
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...
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...
Year 11 GCSE History students will be studying the persecution of minorities in Nazi Germany.
They will focus on the persecution of the Jews and other minority groups in Germany 1933-39.
They will also learn about the escalation of per...
Young people from the Lower Shankill and Falls will be undertaking a remembrance event at Shankill Library where they will unveil a photographic exhibition of their visits to Belfast Synagogue, Auschwitz Concentration Camp and will have affirmatio...
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...
We will be holding year group assemblies throughout the week beginning 22nd January, 8.45 - 9 am. Form classes will complete the form class activities that week also.
Glengormley Library marks Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 by hosting a Dementia Friendly Workshop by the NI War Memorial. This will take place on Wednesday 24th January from 10.30-11.30am
Booking is advised - please call 028 9083 3797.
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...