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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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Northumberland County Council - Memorial Service - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

Holocaust Memorial Service on 25 January 2024 - Annual Holocaust Memorial Event to include Raising of Flag, Service and lighting of Candle, Input and readings from young people, refugee families , local schools, Reflection of the theme through sto...

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Bedford Council of Faiths - Candle Lighting Ceremony - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

A short commemoration including the lighting of a candle. Taking place at the Anne Fran tree in Russell Park in Bedford, The tree is located at the back of Russell Park near Penbroke Street in Bedford.
The ceremony is arranged by the Bedford...

SOFO Museum - Naomi & Arthur: Letters from Liberation - HMD 2024 Public

SOFO Museum - Naomi & Arthur: Letters from Liberation - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

A new permanent exhibition, opening on 27th January 2024 at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, tells a story of how a small act of kindness can have a life-changing impact. Naomi and Arthur: Letters from Liberation focuses on two people from diff...

Stroud Radical Reading Group - The Drowned and The Saved - HMD 2024 Public

Stroud Radical Reading Group - The Drowned and The Saved - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

As part of a day of events marking Holocaust Memorial Day in Stroud, we will discuss Primo Levi’s book The Drowned and The Saved, from 3.30-5.30pm at The Lansdown Hall in Stroud (GL5 1BB), on Sunday 28th January. This will follow Stroud’s Holocaus...

West Norfolk Jewish Community - Holocaust Memorial Day - HMD 2024 Public

West Norfolk Jewish Community - Holocaust Memorial Day - HMD 2024

Sunday, 21 January 2024,

A multi-faith civic service at King's Lynn Town Hall from noon.
Members of the Christian and Muslim community will join with schools and other organisations to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Readings, poetry and song combine for a moving...

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HMP Bullingdon - HMD Talk - HMD 2024

Thursday, 8 February 2024,

Gen2genUK helped in providing us with a speaker to come and talk with both prisoners and staff on their families experiences during WW2 in relation to the persecution of Jews and the Holocaust. The talk/presentation will be around an hour long on ...

Tredegar Town Council - Light the Darkness 2024 - HMD 2024 Public

Tredegar Town Council - Light the Darkness 2024 - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

As a tribute in commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day, the public will be invited to join members of Tredegar Town Council to light a candle to mark this historic international event.
Guests are welcome to create their own light - whether ...

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Oxford Brookes University - Ceremony - HMD 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

Everyone in the Oxford Brookes University community is welcome to join the Multifaith Chaplaincy for a student-led commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day. We gather every year to remember the people who suffered and died in the Holocaust, and in ...

Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group - Discussion - HMD 2024 Public

Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group - Discussion - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, the Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group would like to invite everyone to a discussion on this year’s theme, the fragility of freedom.
Join us as we explore testimonies from different conflicts o...

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Oxford City Council - HMD Service - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Oxford will mark Holocaust Memorial Day with an in-person service hosted by Oxford City Council on Friday 26 January 2024 at Oxford Town Hall.

Holocaust Memorial Day is a day to remember and learn about the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and ...

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Christ Church, Oxford - Sing with Ilse Weber - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

To mark the day and this year's theme, Fragility of Freedom, a singing workshop will be organised during which two easy songs by Ilse Weber (1903-1944) are going to be studied and sung.
She wrote these songs during her internment in the conc...

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Harris Manchester College - Holocaust Memorial Service - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 31 January 2024,

Harris Manchester College's mid week Chapel service will, on 31 January 2024, be a Holocaust Memorial Service.
The College Chaplain, the Rev Dr Claire MacDonald will lead the service, with Wendy Fidler CBE. A simple sacred gathering with wor...

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Keble College - Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

Sunday 28 January 5.30-6.30pm
Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration

Music from Keble Choir and local Jewish Choir OxfordShir
with readings, prayers, and lighting of candles
in collaboration with the Council of Christians &a...

St Mary's Church - HMD Event - HMD 2024 Public

St Mary's Church - HMD Event - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

An opportunity to find out about those who have visited the village in recent years to share their experience of the Holocaust and genocide.

10:00-16:00
Displays & activities

18:00
A period of reflection with music, ...