Each year tens of thousands of activities take place across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). Explore our map to see activities that happened for HMD 2022.
This evening of readings and music is inspired by the unpublished memoir of Fritz Ball, who fled Berlin in 1939 and landed in Newmarket, Suffolk. He and his wife were among 25 refugees who lived at Palace House Stables, in a building which is toda...
A small poignant display in the form of a visual timeline focused on Anne Frank and the Secret Annexe. The ‘One Day’ which is the HMD Theme, is the day the Annexe was discovered and everyone was arrested.
There are books on display in conne...
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young Jewish inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau were selected to create beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon established by the camp commandant’s wife.
New York Times bestselling...
Planting of a special oak tree to commemorate the thousands of Jewish refugees who managed to find refuge in Britain from Nazi persecution in Europe, and the massive contribution they have since made to every aspect of British culture, industry an...
This Holocaust Memorial Day we are marking fifty years since the publication of Judith Kerr’s autobiographical book When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, telling the story of how she and her family fled Nazi Germany. Join us for a special opportunity to ...
Secondary school book group. Discussion about HMD. Watching trailer of the Boy in the Striped pyjamas. Discussion about the plot.
One Day Changes is an exhibition by Skimstone Arts Associate Artists and photojournalists Ako Ismail and Shahor Omar from Iraqi Kurdistan with lived refugee experience. Their images show how in one day something so dramatic and life-changing force...
An atmospheric candle-lit focus for reflection, prayer and learning will be available in the Cathedral from 6-8pm on Wednesday 26th and from 8am until 6.30pm on Thursday 27th January.
HMD resources, and poems will be available to inform vis...
For Holocaust Memorial Day
Alice Svarin 1921 - 2013
Presented by Vera Bernstein
A presentation of photographs, maps and video clips of Alice describing the fate of family and how some survived in Slovakia, August 1944 - March...
Noreen will tell the story of two Polish Jewish families whose lives were tragically changed when Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
In different ways, they were affected by two of the most evil people on the planet, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hit...
This activity will consist of members from our Student Council reading life stories of those affected by genocide. They will be reading these stories to their form groups and will be developing ideas around how to raise awareness regarding genocid...
Join presenters Kema Sikazwe and Claire Webster Saaremets live at Newcastle City Library’s Bewick Hall, or tune in via Skimstone Radio, for a unique broadcast featuring music from Skimstone Arts’ band Reality Boots and Ensemble band alongside film...
Oxford Interfaith Forum is delighted to invite you to a special event on Thursday, 27th January at 18:00 GMT when we mark the International Holocaust Memorial Day.
We are deeply honoured to welcome Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley CH as our ...
5 Assemblies across KS3 and KS4
Workshop on Kindertransport for Year 6
Virtual recording of survivor testimony during all Year 9 lessons
Oxford Holocaust Memorial Events Series: One Day When We Tell Their Stories
Welcome to the Oxford Holocaust Memorial Events Series 2022, part of the Humanities Cultural Programme. Each year, on Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January), we come...
A short memorial service for everyone, given by students and religious figures at the university!
Planting of a special oak tree to commemorate the thousands of Jewish refugees who managed to find refuge in Britain from Nazi persecution in Europe, and the massive contribution they have since made to every aspect of British culture, industry an...
A service of reflection on Holocaust Memorial Day, sung by the Choir of Exeter College, Oxford with settings of the psalms by Salamone Rossi, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Herbert Howells.
Eva Cato née Rotenstein was born in Czechoslovakia 13 years before the outbreak of World War II. An only child growing up in a small town in Slovakia with her mother and grandparents, she witnessed the encroachment of anti-Semitic hostilities and ...
Because of Covid these were online assemblies delivered to years 7 to 13 in their registration slot.
Not what I would have chosen to do but needs must. The slot meant they were foreshortened to only 15 minutes.