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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 find HMD activities happening near you – just enter your postcode and the type of activity you’d like to attend.

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St Helens Church - A Wakefield Holocaust Story - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

This event will tell the story of Ernst and Gertrud Neustadt, a German Jewish couple who fled to England in late 1939, and who are buried in the graveyard of St Helen's church in Wakefield. The talk will be given by Charlie Knight, who explored Er...

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NUSA - Fragility of Freedom: The Jewish Deaf Perspective - HMD 2024

Monday, 22 January 2024,

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...

University of York - Ruth Wiener’s Story - HMD 2024 Public

University of York - Ruth Wiener’s Story - HMD 2024

Tuesday, 23 January 2024,

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 ‘...

Brampton Museum - Talk and Film Show - HMD 2024 Public

Brampton Museum - Talk and Film Show - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

A special talk, film show and virtual visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Memorial Day.

2pm Michael Ruddy, V&A Wedgwood Collection, a talk on the "Wedgwood Family and Factory rescuing European Refugees 1933-1945"
2:45...

New Vic Borderlines - Yizkor docu-drama -HMD 2024 Public

New Vic Borderlines - Yizkor docu-drama -HMD 2024

Monday, 22 January 2024,

Developed with the support of the Imperial War Museum Fellowship in Holocaust Education.

As part of United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, New Vic Borderlines present YIZKOR

‘The best play about the Holocaust that I have ever se...

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Klezmerish and Opera Circus - Stumbling Stones - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

At the Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room, we are performing Stumbling Stones, a show based on the book Villa Russo: A Jewish Story by Julia Nelki on 28th & 29th January 2024. The piece interweaves the family’s stories with testimony and poetry...

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Redditch Borough Council - Holocaust Memorial Day Event - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

The arrangements for the day in brief are as follows:

10.15am - Meet at Redditch Town Hall
10.30am - HMD Procession to leave the Town Hall*
10.35am - Ceremony at the Holocaust Marker, Church Green. Followed by refreshments at Re...

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Redditch Borough Council - Birds Flying Free - HMD 2024

Monday, 22 January 2024,

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...

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Worcester City - Fragility of Freedom - HMD 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

Monday 29th January 1
10.30am -11.30am at the Guildhall, Worcester

Our speaker this year is Michael Bibring, a second-generation holocaust survivor. Worcestershire Interfaith Forum are delighted that students from schools around the c...

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Durham Cathedral - Event with speaker Robert Rinder - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

On Friday 26th January at 10am TV personality Robert Rinder MBE will be leading Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations in County Durham this year. Robert will attend a commemorative event at Durham Cathedral alongside Bernie Graham and Charlotte La...

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Buckingham Town Council - Reflective Event - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Community gathering to mark Holocaust Memorial day around Bourton Park's Holocaust Memorial Stone. Attendees are from across our town's community and everyone is welcome. We hope to receive readings from our local schools and members of our commu...

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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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Watford FC - Holocaust Survivor Talk - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 6 December 2023,

Holocaust survivor Eve Kugler will be coming to speak to staff from Watford FC and our Community, Sports and Education Trust.
Eve has previously spoken to a group of our Academy players.

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Hillingdon Libraries - Author Talk with Roger Moorhouse - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

At Hillingdon libraries we have an author talk with Roger Moorhouse about his latest book The Forgers.

To book a place please call Uxbridge library on 01895 250714 or Visit Discover Hillingdon.

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