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.
We are taking the whole of year 9 to see the film One Life about the story of Nicholas Winton who arranged the Kindertransport on Wednesday 31st January from 2-4pm. This ties in with Holocaust Memorial Day and also the year 9s who are learning Jud...
Lantern-making workshop, from 11.00am-4.30pm
Make your lantern for the Procession of Light in the Community Space at The Forum.
Procession of Light, gather from 6.15pm
Join us for a Procession of Light outside The Forum, led by...
The Croydon Pledge, candle lighting, book of Remembrance and minutes silence by the Civic Mayor of Croydon, speeches from the Executive Mayor, the Councillor for communities and culture and a representative from Croydon Synagogue.
Presentat...
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...
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.
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 ...
From Darkness to Hope: The Journey of Lucy White
Hungarian-born Lucy White survived two Nazi concentration camps and two slave labour camps during the Second World War, before being liberated by the British Army. Her whole family were kille...
Talk: a Kindertransport Child, the story of Otto Deutsch (Stewart Raine, Jewish community) (Y5 upwards)
Film and talk: showing of ‘Porrajmos’, the Nazi genocide of the Gypsy, Roma and Sinti peoples (Lizzie Small, Romany community) (Y8 upwar...
10am - 11.15am on Friday 26th January 2024
HMD 2024 opening ceremony at Exeter Cathedral, attended by local dignitaries, members of the public and school pupils.
Speaker: Rosemary Schonfeld
I did a HMD assembly at Emmanuel Middle School for 200 Year 5 and Year 6 pupils. I have developed a PowerPoint presentation about Judith Kerr and how she and her family managed to escape Berlin all because of the act of a German policeman who very...
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 ...
Belfairs Academy will be undertaking assemblies from the week commencing the 22 January that surround the theme 'Fragility of Freedom' that will be presented to all year groups.
Additionally, students will have worked together to create a di...
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.
Southend City Council will hold a Service of Commemoration on Sunday 28th January, 3pm at the Civic Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 6ER.
This annual event will include music, poetry and readings, with a presentation from a local secondary s...
The second of our HMD events for students which will run from 10-11.30.
We will start the event with an Act of Commemoration at which 7 candles will be lit.
Our local survivor Henry Schachter will be telling his story of being a hidden...
This year Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day is organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton and Solent University.
Our commemorative event includes testimony from Marie-Chantal...
This is the 10th annual HMD event that I have organised for students in Dorset and BCP.
It is taking place on Monday 29th January from 10.-11.30.
It will start an act of commemoration at which 7 candles will be lit.
Maralyn Tur...
A visit from Anita Peleg to share her mother's survivor story to years 12 and 13 at Bournemouth School for Girls. Anita visited on Thursday 25 January 2024 between 11.30-12.30. The students were completely engaged by her talk and many questions fo...
I read eve Bunting's the story of 'Terrible Things' to 360 Key stage 2 children at Bishop Aldhelm's C.E school.
This was on 2nd February.
I started at 10.00 and finished about 10.20.