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.
“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...
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...
All are welcome to attend our service which is taking place on Friday 26 January at the Sheila Mitchell Pavilion in Peace Memorial Park, Wigston.
The service starts at 12pm, and will last for approximately 30-40 minutes.
The service ...
Whole school assembly to help us reflect on the power of words like 'persecution', 'polarisation', 'genocide', 'oppression', 'words that are widely used and misused in social media. The assembly is led by A Level Classical and Modern linguists who...
Students will gather to light candles in memory of victims of war and genocide.
We have the daughter of a survivor recounting the story of her mother's life and experiences through the Holocaust
Holocaust Memorial Exhibition
South Derbyshire Visitor information Centre (No.1 High Street, Swadlincote DE11 8JG) – Saturday 20th – Tuesday 30 January
Exhibition theme - Fragility of Freedom
Opening times - open between 10am and...
A short, outdoor ceremony in our Holocaust Memorial Walled Garden at Bramcote Hills Park, Ilkeston Rd, Bramcote NG9 3JT.
The event begins at 11:00am and will be concluded by 11:40am. It includes the local secondary school band singing four...
THE BROXTOWE COMMUNITY will come together at a short ceremony to mark the 22nd annual event on Friday 26th January which will take place in the Walled Garden at Bramcote Hills Park at 11.00am.
Mayor of the Borough of Broxtowe, Councillor Te...
An evening of Reflection - Theme - Fragility of Freedom
Join us on Saturday 27th January 2024 in The Chambers, Corby Cube, NN17 1QG
Freedom means different things to different people. What is clear is that in every genocide that has ...
12.45 – 13.00
Music performed by Coventry Music – Brass quintet.
13.00 – 13.05
Welcome by Cllr Abdul Khan – Deputy Leader, Coventry City Council
Followed by
Lord Mayor of Coventry - Councill...
In partnership with Tamworth Borough Council our gardening club will creating a green memorial for the victims of genocide and hate.
Our Year 6 classes will be designing the images to be painted onto the planter after receiving some inputs f...
In the week preceding HMD Tamworth Borough Council are supporting several local schools to create green memorials for their Year 6 classrooms to encourage and highlight unity and friendship.
Alongside the provision of the tools to create ...
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...
Stamford Arts Centre this year hosts Lincoln's Klezmer Band Simcha who will perform their concert-documentary 'Kindertransport'. Music has been specially composed for this moving and poignant presentation which forms the first half of the evening....
We have a selection of books on display, both fiction and non-fiction, available to borrow from the library related to the Holocaust and genocide. Please join us to light the darkness on this important subject.
Outdoor Commemorative service on Friday 26th January 2024 at 11am in St Michaels Churchyard.
On Friday 26th January- all students will take part in a full day of lessons based on different aspects of the Holocaust and genocides. This will include listening to survivor testimony and focusing on a range of individual experiences across dif...
Holocaust Memorial Day
West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on Friday 26 to remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust under Nazi persecution and in genocides in Rwanda, Cambod...