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.
At the Sawbridgeworth Town Council meeting on the 29th of January at 19:30, a candle will be lit to mark Holocaust Memorial Day as well as a period of thoughts and reflection led by Cllr Salvatore Pagdades.
A Service of Remembrance to honour the 6,000,000 Jews who died in the Nazi Holocaust and the multiple thousands who have died in holocausts since then.
Prayers will be offered, memorial candles will be lit and a short address given.
This year Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day is organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton and Solent University.
Our commemorative event includes testimony from Marie-Chantal...
“Then they came for me…”.
Martin Niemöller, Protestant
Antisemitism and the problem of Holocaust remembrance in post-war Germany.
“Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me”. This the final line of the fa...
The Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg, the Wiener Holocaust Library London and the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester are pleased to co-host a virtual lecture for Holocaust...
Join us as we commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day at Woolwich Town Hall on Monday 29 January at 10.30am.
There will be speeches, performances and a memorial prayer, followed by refreshments.
We will need to limit numbers due to venue ...
We have the daughter of a survivor recounting the story of her mother's life and experiences through the Holocaust
Leicester’s annual commemorative event will start at 7pm on Saturday 27 January 2024.
The programme will include participation of local school children, reading of essays by the winners of the annual Paul Winstone competition, a musical int...
Pupils wanted to create a canvas to put up in school as a constant reminder of the holocaust, and to make people think about what we need to learn for similar things to not happen again. They took inspiration from the HMD website and created a fla...
This is an annual assembly we hold to remind the pupils of the atrocities that have been and are still been committed.
29 January 2024
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...
We are hosting a school wide assembly on this years theme of the Fragility of Freedom. We are including Y9 pupils in this who have just finished their study of the Holocaust. We have also ordered a HMD candle to light this on HMD and take some tim...
The son of two Holocaust survivors came into school to speak to year 11 students about his parents story.
The name of the organisation that ran this was Generation 2 Generation.
We are taking the whole of year 9 to see the film One Life about the story of Nicholas Winton who arranged the Kindertransport on Wednesday 31st January from 2-4pm. This ties in with Holocaust Memorial Day and also the year 9s who are learning Jud...
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Pill Library invites you to an informal personal story-telling by Lorna Brunstein, local artist and daughter of Holocaust survivor Esther Brunstein.
Recalling a trip to Poland Lorna will share a specific episo...
We were lucky to use generation to generation and had Seymour Kelly visit our school.
He spoke of his mothers experiences of the Holocaust using her video testimony and his recollections.
All students at Bedminster Down School are listening to assemblies created by Y11 students on Holocaust Memorial.
All students will then take part in a Tutor lesson on freedom and human rights.
Each student will write on a luggage tag ...
Holocaust survivor Dr Martin Stern MBE was born in Holland in 1938 and experienced Nazi persecution in the Netherlands before being sent to Westerbork camp in the northern part of the country in 1944, followed by the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czech...
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...
Speaker delivering a hour long session on her families story of survival against the odds.