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.
Our event is taking place on Sunday 28th January from 2.00-4.30
The theme for HMD 2024 is ‘Fragility of Freedom’. We will be remembering the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda (7 April 1994 – 15 July 1994) and the 70th anniversary of...
Westbury Manor Museum will be lit up in purple from 8pm on 27 January in support of Holocaust Memorial Day.
Individuals are encouraged to take part by safely lighting a candle in their window to remember those who were murdered for who they...
Councillors, the MP for Crawley and Rabbi Gabriel are invited to a planting of a willow tree in Memorial Gardens, a tranquil space in the centre of Crawley.
Havant Borough Council are planning a short non-denominational service of commemoration at the Holocaust Memorial at Havant Cemetery, Eastern Road, Havant PO9 2JQ at 11.00 am on Friday 26th January 2024.
The service will focus on the theme...
Year 6 at Bickleigh Down CofE Primary School will be working with PCFCD and hearing from Jonathan Marshall. Jonathan was a good friend of Solly Irving and will be sharing Solly's story with the children. After Jonathan's talk, Year 6 will be rea...
Vigil held in the Chapel at the University of Chichester.
We are delighted to welcome Anita Peleg, Sandra Miller and Dr Imogen Dalziel to give presentations in our school theatre on Tuesday 6th February 2024 from 2pm -430pm.
Daily assemblies for students in years 7-12 on the theme of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides.
Display of art objects created by students for past HMD competitions:
2020, 75 Memorial Flame sculpture winner
2023 Extra Ordina...
Select students are being given the opportunity to hear from David Wirth, whose parents were survivors of the Nazi persecution in the Holocaust.
Students will benefit from a preparatory lesson the day before to ensure that they are better ab...
Ashes to Light Concert
Nelly Ben-Or was imprisoned in the Lwow ghetto as a child and subsequently escaped to Warsaw where she spent years living under a false identity, narrowly evading recapture by the Nazis.
She would eventually set...
Chichester Marks Holocaust Memorial Day with a specially-commissioned one-woman show from novelist, historian and Cicestrian, Kate Mosse.
Celebrating extraordinary women of World War II whose courage and bravery deserve to be better known, ...
The story is set in January 1944 at an exclusive Catholic boys boarding school near Fontainebleau. Twelve-year-old Julien (Gaspard Manesse), a bright, popular pupil at the school, is asked by headmaster Père Jean to look after a new boy, the shy, ...
Starts 10.30am; Friday 26 January
First part: Ceremony at Town's war memorial attended by local dignitaries, schoolchildren, Imam, members of both Jewish and Muslim communities, local residents. Laying of stones and flowers side by side on...
Join us for an Author Talk with Diane Samuels
2pm 27 January 2024
FREE - booking required
Diane Samuels is a playwright whose work has been widely produced. Her play Kindertransport won the Verity Bargate and Meyer-Whitworth Aw...
Kindertransport by Diane Samuels: A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past.
4.00pm, 27 January 2024
Free - booking required
Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine...
On Tuesday 30 January, a memorial event will be held in the Peace Garden on Plymouth Hoe at midday, providing an opportunity for communities to reflect.
For more info: https://ow.ly/YQrn50QuRPH
Commemorations for Holocaust Memorial Day will be held on Monday 29 January 2024, at the War Memorial Garden on Church Walk.
Members of the public are welcome to attend the multi-faith service, which will commence at 10:30am.
Copies of...
The Arden Youth Theatre are performing a short play called ARBEIT MACHT FREI about the Jewish persecution during WW2, on INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 27TH JANUARY 2024.
The play will be performed THREE times on the day: 2.30pm, 5.00p...
Holocaust Memorial Day at The University of Sussex 2024
Wednesday 7 February 14:00 until 17:00
Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of Sussex on Wed...
Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of Sussex on Wednesday 7 February 2024, 2-5pm.
The programme will be split into two sessions:
Session 1 - Test...