Each year thousands of activities take place across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). Explore our activity map to see activities that took place online across the UK for HMD 2021.
To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day and in honour of Tu B’Shvat, we are hosting a very exciting guest speaker and local neighbour to our Kehillah, Dr Anna Hájková, who will be presenting and doing a Q&A with us on her new book on the History...
Marking Holocaust Memorial Day, we are sharing a unique performance of the Austrian Moritz Weiß Klezmer Trio: A band dedicated to Klezmer, a musical tradition of the East European Ashkenazi Jews.
Skilfully weaving together their own interpr...
Workplace based event to encourage people to commemorate HMD. Using life stories and resources on the website to inspire conversations about the darkness in the world and where it has been resisted or transformed into the light.
The Genocide Convention signified an international commitment to prevent genocide and protect human groups. Yet, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, Myanmar and now the persecution of the Uyghurs illustrate a failure to realise this ambition.
HMDT's staff will gather together to share what has inspired or motivated them as they have prepared for HMD 2021.
We will be reading the story of 'Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge' and thinking about the importance of memories. We will be thinking about what memories do we have of our own life and what objects help us to remember those memories. Could our me...
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’s commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 will take place online on Wednesday 27 January.
The Council has produced a short film addressing the theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day 'Be...
Students from eight secondary schools will take part in our project. First, on December 9, they will have an online workshop with author Tom Palmer. Tom will talk about his book 'After The War'. Afterwards, the students will write their own piece ...
Online group tutorial and resources reviewing HMD and its implications for dealing with current hate and prejudice.
Interactive, online Holocaust Memorial Day workshops and assemblies have been developed by leading national charity, Protection Approaches with the support of South-West based RJ Working. Protection Approaches’ team of expert facilitators ar...
In this special edition of the Together Unlocked! livestream, the hosts find out more about National Holocaust Memorial Day and reflect on the Holocaust from their perspective as Disabled people, gay and Jewish people. Includes a special screening...
An assembly focused around this years theme, with a school wide project for pupils to produce a piece of art work or writing to commemorate this years Memorial Day.
This year in the absence of being able to produce a display for HMD we converted the PowerPoint into a video based on the theme brief 'Light In The Darkness.' The video was written by our HMD lead and Holocaust Education Trust ambassador, we hav...
A powerful and heart-breaking novel about three childhood friends living during the Second World War whose fates are closely intertwined, even when their lives take very different courses.
Vienna. 1936. Three young friends – Leo, Elsa and Ma...
As part of Lambeth’s commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day we will be in discussion with Anna Blasiak, author of Lili – a book-length conversation with Lili Stern-Pohlmann. This is the story of Lili Pohlmann's incredible childhood and survival a...
The Kindertransport, the flight to Britain of 10,000 mostly Jewish children from the persecution of the Nazis, is usually associated with the British stockbroker Nicholas Winton. He managed to save 6% of the children - who saved the other 94%? Mik...
As part of the annual Holocaust Remembrance Week programme, the University of Essex is hosting a panel discussion to examine the challenges and opportunities for combating antisemitism from the perspective of actors who have been engaged in addres...
During Holocaust Memorial Week, please join us for an online service based on the Friday evening synagogue service. There will be readings and reflections, in the spirit of peace and friendship. Open to all.
On 20 November 1945, the first of the military trials of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany opened in the city of Nuremberg, Germany. The Nuremberg trials were a milestone in internationa...
Kingston unites with the nation in honouring the victims and survivors of genocide, as embraced by the spirit of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. This year's theme: Be the light in the darkness.
Due to current circumstances the event will ...