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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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Haywards Heath Town Council - Survivor Speaker - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Starts 10.30am; Friday 26 January

First part: Ceremony at Town's war memorial attended by local dignitaries, schoolchildren, Imam, members of both Jewish and Muslim communities, local residents. Laying of stones and flowers side by side on...

The Arden Youth Theatre - Play: Arbeit Macht Frei - HMD 2024 Public

The Arden Youth Theatre - Play: Arbeit Macht Frei - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

The Arden Youth Theatre are performing a short play called ARBEIT MACHT FREI about the Jewish persecution during WW2, on INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 27TH JANUARY 2024.
The play will be performed THREE times on the day: 2.30pm, 5.00p...

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Bournemouth and Poole HMD Committee - Assembly - HMD 2024

Tuesday, 6 February 2024,

I did a HMD assembly at Emmanuel Middle School for 200 Year 5 and Year 6 pupils. I have developed a PowerPoint presentation about Judith Kerr and how she and her family managed to escape Berlin all because of the act of a German policeman who very...

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Westbury Manor Museum - Commemorative - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Westbury Manor Museum will be lit up in purple from 8pm on 27 January in support of Holocaust Memorial Day.

Individuals are encouraged to take part by safely lighting a candle in their window to remember those who were murdered for who they...

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Havant Borough Council - Holocaust Memorial Commemoration - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Havant Borough Council are planning a short non-denominational service of commemoration at the Holocaust Memorial at Havant Cemetery, Eastern Road, Havant PO9 2JQ at 11.00 am on Friday 26th January 2024.

The service will focus on the theme...

Chichester Festival Theatre - Women Who Resisted - HMD 2024 Public

Chichester Festival Theatre - Women Who Resisted - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Chichester Marks Holocaust Memorial Day with a specially-commissioned one-woman show from novelist, historian and Cicestrian, Kate Mosse.

Celebrating extraordinary women of World War II whose courage and bravery deserve to be better known, ...

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Somerset Council - Commemorative - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

The Somerset Holocaust Memorial event will be held in St Johns Church, Park Street Taunton TA1 4DG on 25th January 2023 12.30 till 13.30. This commemoration is organised by a small collection of community representatives and Somerset Council.

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Bournemouth and Poole HMD committee - Survivor Speaker - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 31 January 2024,

The second of our HMD events for students which will run from 10-11.30.
We will start the event with an Act of Commemoration at which 7 candles will be lit.
Our local survivor Henry Schachter will be telling his story of being a hidden...

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Bournemouth School for Girls - Holocaust Memorial Speaker - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

A visit from Anita Peleg to share her mother's survivor story to years 12 and 13 at Bournemouth School for Girls. Anita visited on Thursday 25 January 2024 between 11.30-12.30. The students were completely engaged by her talk and many questions fo...

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Lewes Old Grammar School - HMD presentation - HMD 2024

Monday, 5 February 2024,

A local resident, Tim Locke, is giving a presentation about his family's history during the Holocaust. He is a member of the HMD group in Lewes and presented last year as well. The presentation will be delivered to the whole of Year 9 and last app...

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University of Sussex - Holocaust Memorial Day - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 7 February 2024,

Holocaust Memorial Day at The University of Sussex 2024
Wednesday 7 February 14:00 until 17:00

Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of Sussex on Wed...

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University of Sussex - Survivor Testimony and Exhibition - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 7 February 2024,

Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of Sussex on Wednesday 7 February 2024, 2-5pm.

The programme will be split into two sessions:

Session 1 - Test...

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Brighton and Hove Libraries - Holocaust Exhibition - HMD 2024

Monday, 12 February 2024,

This small exhibition seeks to include the Roma and Sinti experience within the broader Holocaust narrative; however, its main purpose is to invite thought and enquiry around contemporary issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion pertaining to ...

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Bournemouth and Poole HMD Committee - Survivor Speaker - HDM 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

This is the 10th annual HMD event that I have organised for students in Dorset and BCP.
It is taking place on Monday 29th January from 10.-11.30.
It will start an act of commemoration at which 7 candles will be lit.
Maralyn Tur...

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Brighton and Hove Libraries - [Extra]Ordinary Portraits - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 17 January 2024,

[Extra]Ordinary Portraits is a collection of artworks that reveal the ‘extraordinary elements of seemingly ordinary people’.
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust partnered with The Royal Drawing School and asked young people across the UK to learn a...

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Ramsgate Town Council - Holocaust Memorial Day Service - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

Ramsgate Town Council and the Mayor of Ramsgate, Cllr Pat Moore will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day with a special service held at Thanet & District Reform Synagogue on Saturday 27th January 2024 at 10am.

This event is open to the...

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Bournemouth and Poole HMD committee - Commemorative - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

Our event is taking place on Sunday 28th January from 2.00-4.30
The theme for HMD 2024 is ‘Fragility of Freedom’. We will be remembering the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda (7 April 1994 – 15 July 1994) and the 70th anniversary of...