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.
Welcome by the Mayor of the Borough of Telford and Wrekin
Introduction by a Council Member
Guest speaker - a Rwandan survivor, Anais Mutumba
Other speaker - second generation of survivors of the Holocaust, Dr Eve Clevenger
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The congregations of the Methodist Churches n Retford Notts, with invited visitors, will mark the day.
The May or Retford and Deputy Mayor will lead an act of remembrance by lighting candles.
There will be readings, reflections and hym...
A short, outdoor ceremony in our Holocaust Memorial Walled Garden at Bramcote Hills Park, Ilkeston Rd, Bramcote NG9 3JT.
The event begins at 11:00am and will be concluded by 11:40am. It includes the local secondary school band singing four...
THE BROXTOWE COMMUNITY will come together at a short ceremony to mark the 22nd annual event on Friday 26th January which will take place in the Walled Garden at Bramcote Hills Park at 11.00am.
Mayor of the Borough of Broxtowe, Councillor Te...
Please join us at our civic commemoration on Friday 26 January 2024 at Telford Theatre, Limes Walk, Telford TF2 6EP,arrivals will be from 10:00am for a 10.30am start.
The event will include reflection from guest speakers from the borough, a...
As a mainstream school, UCL Beacon School and also a school for the deaf, we are going to approach the concept of Freedom of Fragility through the perspective of the deaf community during the Holocaust and in the present day-we will be producing a...
This Holocaust Memorial Day, Holocaust survivor Hedi Argent MBE will be sharing her testimony live through YouTube. Last year 600 schools joined us online for a successful event. It is free to join.
Her talk is suitable for both primary and...
Holocaust Memorial Exhibition
South Derbyshire Visitor information Centre (No.1 High Street, Swadlincote DE11 8JG) – Saturday 20th – Tuesday 30 January
Exhibition theme - Fragility of Freedom
Opening times - open between 10am and...
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum will be hosting survivor Martin Stern onsite for visiting members of the public.
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum will be hosting survivor Arek Hersh onsite for visiting members of the public.
We are asking our supporters to request from their Church Minister or Pastor a few minutes in the church service to reflect on Holocaust Memorial Day. This could be done on either Sunday 21st or 28th January.
It's a time to pray for Holocau...
On Thursday 25th January 2024, all are welcome at York St John University to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
This event will be held in the Creative Centre Auditorium.
There will be speakers and performances, including an address from t...
A reading of poetry of the Holocaust, and poetry by survivors of other genocides.
There will be two readers, and will will read poems in three sections:
(1) Poems written during the Holocaust in camps and prisons, that speak of impris...
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum will be hosting survivor Hedi Argent onsite for visiting schools.
We will also be offering the opportunity to any school that we have worked with this year to join a live cast of the talk.
Tuesday 23 January 2024, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Speaker: Barbara Warnock, Wiener Holocaust Library
Free admission, booking required
Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture
This event is organised in response to the 2024 HMD theme of ‘...
Online briefing to all North Wales Police employees to highlight HMD and the history as well as this years theme.
Local Policing stations will have a poster and booklet on display in public areas, including force headquarters.
On 27 ...
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.
On 26 January, 2024, song composer and producer Finn Ambers will release CANDLELIGHT, a folk song with a Holocaust theme.
Finn's purpose in writing CANDLELIGHT is to commemorate the suffering of those affected by the Holocaust and similar t...
Vivien Churney, a second-generation speaker, is willing to go in to schools and talk about the experiences of her mother.
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...