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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 see HMD activities that took place near you for HMD 2024.

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St George's University of London JSoc - HMD Event - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 24 January 2024,

We will start with an address by members of the JSoc committee.
We are grateful to host a speaker from G2G, Dalya Wittinberg, who will be retelling the story of her Grandmother, Cilla Rotblat.
This will be followed by a candle lighting...

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Bath and North East Somerset Council - HMD Commemoration - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

‘Fragility of Freedom’ Remembering the Holocaust in Bath and North East Somerset
A special ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau the largest Nazi death camp is taking place in Bath on Thursday 25th Jan...

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Bedwas High School - Fragility of Freedom - HMD 2024

Monday, 11 December 2023,

Humanities homework for years 7/8 with the focus on the fragility of freedom. PPT presented outlining the background, work of HMD and aims of the theme. Pupils are able to choose how they wish to complete the homework e.g. symbol, poem, research ...

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Bedminster Down School - School Assemblies - HMD 2024

Saturday, 20 January 2024,

All students at Bedminster Down School are listening to assemblies created by Y11 students on Holocaust Memorial.
All students will then take part in a Tutor lesson on freedom and human rights.
Each student will write on a luggage tag ...

The Little Theatre, Picturehouse - My Nazi Legacy - HMD 2024 Public

The Little Theatre, Picturehouse - My Nazi Legacy - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

A poignant, thought-provoking account of friendship and the toll of inherited guilt, My Nazi Legacy explores the relationship between two men, each of whom are the children of very high-ranking Nazi officials and possess starkly contrasting attitu...

Trinity School - Flame of Hope Canvas - HMD 2024 Private

Trinity School - Flame of Hope Canvas - HMD 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

Pupils wanted to create a canvas to put up in school as a constant reminder of the holocaust, and to make people think about what we need to learn for similar things to not happen again. They took inspiration from the HMD website and created a fla...

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HMD North Somerset - Fragility of Freedom - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Book a free place via Eventbrite.
Theme 'Fragility of Freedom'
Arrive 7.30 pm for 8 pm start.
Sharon Foster, High Sheriff of Bristol, will open the event.
Presentation by Tim Coles, Professor of Social History at the Univer...

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Trowbridge Town Council - Light the Darkness - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Trowbridge Town Council will be lighting up The Civic Centre building in Purple to remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups and during more recent g...

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Lowestoft Town Council - HMD Commemorative Service - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

All are welcome to attend Lowestoft Town Council's annual commemorative event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Taking place at the Parcels Office, Lowestoft Railway Station (where over 500 children arrived in December 1938 as part of the Kin...

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Surrey History Centre - A House of Hope (Webpage) - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

We have discovered many stories of people who came to England and found sanctuary in the towns and villages of Surrey.
For this year's Holocaust Memorial Day theme of 'Fragility of Freedom', we visit a Guildford home that gave shelter and ho...

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London Borough of Merton - Civic Event / Exhibition - HMD 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

HMD is the day for everyone to remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution, and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. The event is organised / facilitated by the Policy Tea...

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Ewell Castle School - HMD Talk - HMD 2024

Friday, 9 February 2024,

The talk started at 2.30pm and finished at 4.00pm. This also included questions from the audience. The main speaker, Seymour Kelly related the events and impact of the Holocaust on his mother and her family and how she survived. It was extremely i...

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St Catherine's Catholic School - Speaker - HMD 2024

Tuesday, 6 February 2024,

The son of two Holocaust survivors came into school to speak to year 11 students about his parents story.
The name of the organisation that ran this was Generation 2 Generation.

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St Catherine's Catholic School - One Life Cinema Trip - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 31 January 2024,

We are taking the whole of year 9 to see the film One Life about the story of Nicholas Winton who arranged the Kindertransport on Wednesday 31st January from 2-4pm. This ties in with Holocaust Memorial Day and also the year 9s who are learning Jud...