Each year thousands of activities take place across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. As we move towards 27 January 2019, more local activities will be submitted to the map below, which you can use to see what is happening in your area.
The HMDT staff team will be sharing readings, films, podcasts and poems with one another that relate to the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2019, Torn from Home. These have inspired or moved us as we have prepared for HMD 2019.
Torn from home is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2019. This theme helps us to reflect on how the loss of a safe place to call “home” is part of the trauma faced by anyone experiencing persecution and genocide.It provides an important oppo...
A commemoration event , held at the University of Suffolk, starting at 12.30 pm, that includes a series of speakers, and presentations by pupils at a local school, Northgate High School, who have been preparing their human rights projects for ...
An annual event, organised by New Ideals in Education for Tower Hamlets primary school councils and their teachers.The eighth year of an event to remember Janus Korczak and his work with children. Primary school teachers and their school council...
The Reading of Names of victims of the Holocaust and other genocides represents a significant act of remembrance that is best expressed by David Berger, a victim of the Holocaust who was killed at the age of 19 in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1941. David sa...
A ceremony to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The ceremony comprises readings, poems and music, and lighting a candle for remembrance.
Hans Lichtenstein arrived in Britain in 1939, an unaccompanied child refugee who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. Since then, he has revealed little else about his childhood. Do its secrets offer an explanation for this gentle man’s frequ...
Annual commemoration
Langdon Down Museum and Normansfield Theatre open 2pm - 4pmAktion T4: A documentary film Film showing at 2.30pm The Aktion T4 Nazi Euthanasia programme was responsible for the murder of approximately 275,000 people with learning disabilities. ...
Denial is a 2016 British-American biographical drama film directed by Mick Jackson and written by David Hare, based on Deborah Lipstadt's book ‘History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier’. It dramatises the Irving v Penguin Books ...
Lambeth’s 2019 Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony will take place on Sunday, 27 January, and will return this year to the Lambeth Assembly Hall following its refurbishment. This event, to be attended by the Mayor of Lambeth, Cllr Christopher Wellbelove...
Everyone is very welcome to join us for this service, which is based on the Friday evening synagogue service. There will be readings and reflections, in the spirit of peace and friendship. The service is open to all members of the University communit...
The Chair of Bath and North East Somerset Council,Requests the pleasure of your company for a short commemoration to markTorn from Home is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2019Holocaust Memorial Day Trust offers the theme Torn from h...
Students will be writing postcards to holocaust survivors. They will be working together to write these postcards.To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, the libraries have devised a research lesson where each table is given a phot...
On 27 January, Kingston honours the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides. Please join us for this national day of remembrance. The commemoration is free and in-ticketed.This year's theme "Torn from Home" ...
Dora Love, who died in 2011, was a Holocaust survivor who spent much of her life raising awareness that the attitudes which made the Holocaust possible – intolerance, discrimination and outright hatred of those who are regarded as ‘different’ for wha...
Lewisham will mark national Holocaust Memorial Day with a civic commemoration event at the Broadway Theatre in Catford.Young people from local schools will be performing their interpretation of this year's theme 'Torn from home' t...
As usual the 2 Kingston synagogues are jointly running 12 half-day workshops for local schools Year 9-10: total about 1100 students.
Lewisham will mark national Holocaust Memorial Day with a civic commemoration event at the Broadway Theatre in Catford.Young people from local schools will be performing their interpretation of this year's theme 'Torn from home' t...
Wreath laying ceremony to be held at Lowestoft Railway Station. Event is free and open to public.
Whether your activity is private or open to the public, it matters to us. Each Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) activity makes up the bigger picture of how the UK marks 27 January.