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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.

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St Edmundsbury Cathedral - Travelling Display - HMD 2024

Tuesday, 23 January 2024,

‘We have to move on’: Jewish refugees in Suffolk in WW2: Travelling display at St Edmundsbury Cathedral

Discover the stories of the Jewish refugees who found a safe home in Newmarket in Suffolk during the Second World War. This travelling e...

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St Edmundsbury Cathedral - HMD Service - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

A special service in the Abbey Gardens for Holocaust Memorial Day, to remember the victims of genocide. The service will take place in the Peace Garden in the Abbey Gardens at 10.30 am.

Later in the day on Friday 26 January at 7.00 pm, the ...

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Middlesex University - Holocaust Memorial Day Event - HMD 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

Monday 29th January 2024 from 6.30pm-8.30pm.

Hosted by the university Jewish Society on the Middlesex University campus. We have a guest speaker talking about her families' story during the Holocaust.

Although it is being run by the ...

Brent Council - Holocaust Memorial Day - HMD 2024 Public

Brent Council - Holocaust Memorial Day - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

This Holocaust Memorial Day, join Brent’s commemorative event on Thursday 25 January to remember the millions of ordinary people murdered in the Holocaust and in the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

This year’...

Leeds City Council - Civic Remembrance Event - HMD 2024 Public

Leeds City Council - Civic Remembrance Event - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

City Varieties Music Hall Swan Street, Leeds LS1 6LW

Join the Lord Mayor for an afternoon of commemoration. The theme for this year’s event is ‘Fragility of Freedom’.

The event is free, but seats are limited. Tickets are available fr...

Opera North - Fragility of Freedom: Terezin Lieder - HMD 2024 Public

Opera North - Fragility of Freedom: Terezin Lieder - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

For the third year in succession, the Howard Assembly Room presents a concert commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, which this year has the theme Fragility of Freedom.

Pianist and Leeds Lieder director Joseph Middleton, together with barito...

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Oastlers School - School Assembly - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Our whole school assembly marks the memorial day, we have done this every year.

It will include facts about the Holocaust and will include poetry and readings from survivors.

We have historically always had a visiting survivor bu...

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Jewish Care - Survivor Testimony - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

Survivor Testimony being screened at a care home (featuring Taube Biber, a film made in 1995). The interviewed and narrator of the film (Bernice Krantz) will join the event on behalf of the Stephen Spielberg "Stories of the Shoah Visual History" F...

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Jewish Care - Awareness Workshop - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

An awareness workshop to residents of a care home followed by candle lighting with resources brought by the facilitator so that residents can participate if they wish to.

This is taking place in London NW11.

Bradford Cathedral - Holocaust Memorial Service - HMD 2024 Public

Bradford Cathedral - Holocaust Memorial Service - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

Holocaust Memorial Day is held every year on 27 January. We hold a service of music and prayers to mark the occasion on the Sunday nearest to that, this year being 28 January.

All are welcome to join us for this special service Choral Evens...

Hull City Council - City Centre Light Display - HMD 2024 Public

Hull City Council - City Centre Light Display - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Buildings in Hull city centre will be illuminated purple tonight for Holocaust memorial Day, as we remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi persecution, and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, ...

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Muswell Hill Synagogue - 'The Fragility of Freedom' Talk - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

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 ...

Epping Forest Holocaust Educational Trust - Event - HMD 2024 Public

Epping Forest Holocaust Educational Trust - Event - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

The playground by Loughton Library Traps Hill Loughton IG10 1HD 11:30 am.
Payers led by Rabbi Brandman.
Guest speaker Rev Bruce Thompson.
A Methodist Minister and author of "Echoes of Contempt" about antisemitism.

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