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.
Light the Darkness
An intimate gathering for peace
5.30pm
Welcome by Sarri Tapales and Nicola Dunn
Remembering those affected by genocide across the world
Awakening to peace and community through healing ancestral...
Hear Safet’s Vukalic's experience of the Bosnian genocide and Marcel Ladenheim's experience of being a Holocaust survivor and hidden child during the Second World War.
Compered by Rosalynde Lewis who has been involved in Holocaust education ...
The play THERESA reveals the true story of Theresia Steiner, a Viennese Jew, who ended up in Guernsey in 1940.
Researched in the Channel Islands the drama shows a secret British history of collaboration with the Nazis and the murders of Je...
The arrangements for the day in brief are as follows:
From 10.15am - Meet inside Redditch Library
10.30am - Holocaust Ceremony followed by refreshments
If possible, please could you wear something with purple and/or black on.
In Redditch, we have decided to commemorate this important day by expressing our feelings creatively and bringing our ideas together in a piece of artwork to display in the library. For 2024, the image of small birds of different varieties (not bi...
Debra Barnes shared he mother's story with us as a survivor of the Holocaust. This has followed on from work we have been doing throughout the week, HMD has been the focus of our morning prayers, we have posted resources for pupils on Google Class...
All students at Laurel Park School will attend an assembly about Holocaust Memorial Day.
On Wednesday 17 January the College is pleased to welcome another speaker from Generation 2 Generation to adress our Year 11 students.
This address supports the teaching of Judaism and the Jewish response to the Shoah for GCSE Religious Educ...
We are excited to welcome Felice Hardy at the Austrian Cultural Forum. In conversation with Tessa Szyszkowitz, she will take us on a fascinating journey exploring her grandmother's story, an Austrian National Tennis champion who escaped and surviv...
Samantha Spiro has joined the cast of the upcoming stage adaptation of The Most Precious of Goods.
The Most Precious of Goods is penned by Jean-Claude Grumberg based on his best-selling novella, originally in French and now translated into ...
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum will be bringing our new travelling exhibition 'You say Jewish, we say British' to Camden Swiss Cottage Open Space, London, NW3 3NR.
This new exhibition explores the dual identity of British Jews.
The talk started at 2.30pm and finished at 4.00pm. This also included questions from the audience. The main speaker, Seymour Kelly related the events and impact of the Holocaust on his mother and her family and how she survived. It was extremely i...
Occupied City + Live satellite Q&A with Steve McQueen & Bianca Stigter
Where do the memories of a city go? From Oscar- and BAFTA-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen, comes this mesmerising and monu...
This event is being organised by UCL's Jewish Society in collaboration with aish. Please note that this is an invite only event and that the Jewish Society have required that this event is NOT advertised on the Union's or any other social media c...
Mrs Lawrence from Kingston Liberal Synagogue delivered the assembly which included video testimony of a Holocaust survivor.
Mrs Lawrence from the Kingston Liberal Synagogue who delivered the assembly which included video testimony of a Holocaust survivor.
Mrs Lawrence from the Kingston Liberal Synagogue will be delivering a workshop which includes video testimony of a Holocaust survivor.
Bourne Hall will be playing host to a memorial shrine for Holocaust Memorial Day - commemorating all those lost in the Holocaust and other genocides.
Epsom & Ewell Borough Council will be lighting up Epsom's Clock Tower in purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Trowbridge Town Council will be lighting up The Civic Centre building in Purple to remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups and during more recent g...