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.
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...
Book Discussion on Jane Haining, A life of love and courage by Mary Miller
Tuesday 23 January 7-9pm on-line
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...
Westmorland and Furness Council is lighting up its Town Halls in purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD).
From dusk on Friday 26th January to the morning of Monday 29th January, Barrow Town Hall, Kendal Town Hall and Penrith Town Hall w...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
We are commemorating HMD24 with an in-person and online event, delivered by our elected members.
We will also show a short documentary created by one of our elected members that fits into the theme.
A showing of the One Life film about Nicholas Winton and an accompanying talk by Vivien Sieber whose grandmother was one of the warden carers who looked after the Kindertransport girls at the hostel in Windermere village.
We will be hosting a display of books and HMD resources at our largest library, Gateshead Central Library.
The Library is the main public library for Gateshead's Jewish Community.
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...
On Friday 26th January at 10am TV personality Robert Rinder MBE will be leading Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations in County Durham this year. Robert will attend a commemorative event at Durham Cathedral alongside Bernie Graham and Charlotte La...
VINTAGE 1940s DANCE PARTY - MORECAMBE - Saturday 27th January
we look forward to the Morecambe Jive - at the War Memorial Hall, Church Street, Morecambe, LA4 5PR.
Optional Dress Code - something vintage
All are welcome and the ni...
Remembering the Christian missionary who sacrificed her life in Auschwitz to stay with the Jewish children in her care.
Lancaster's annual Holocaust Memorial Day event 2024
Event hosted by More Music held at Lancaster Town Hall. Thursday 25th January 6.00pm-8.00pm
Candlelighting ceremony remembering all who lost their lives during the holocaust, subse...
Candle lighting and prayers and commemorations at Lancaster Gardens of Remembrance adjacent to Lancaster Town Hall.
Join us for a ceremony of reflection and candle lighting followed by music, spoken word and reflections in the banqueting su...
Fishburn Parish Council will light The Queen Elizabeth II Beacon Of Hope, with a 15 minute flame of remembrance and a reading to mark Holocaust Memorial day 2024.