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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 find HMD activities happening near you – just enter your postcode and the type of activity you’d like to attend.

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Bungay Arts and Theatre Society - Event at The Fisher Theatre - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

The Fisher Theatre presents an evening of words and music to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. Diana Cook will tell her mother’s story of escape from Nazi Germany. Diana is a speaker for Generation 2 Generation, a charity which enables the conti...

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HMRC - Holocaust Memorial Day Event - HMD 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

Private, internal event for HMRC staff.

HMRC HMD 2024 will include a testimony from survivor Joan Salter MBE and an introduction from HMRC First Permanent Secretary Jim Harra.
Refreshments will follow a Q&A.

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Hackney Council - Ceremony - HMD 2024

Monday, 29 January 2024,

From 10am-11am approximately Hackney will mark Holocaust Memorial Day with a ceremony in the Council Chamber at Hackney Town Hall with contributions from local community groups and schools. There will be refreshments afterwards.

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Career Ready - Staff Online Event - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

An online call for all Career Ready staff to learn about HMD, hear about real people's experiences, and discuss the global situation today.

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...

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Bensham Manor School - Art Work - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Pupils will be making & selling remembrance ribbons.
Year 9 & 10 will collage their interpretation of the theme.
Year 7 & 8 will learn about the Kindertransport.

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Southwold HMD Group - Southwold Theatre - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

I have been asked to take over organising HMD in Southwold on Jan 27th next year, which we will hold as usual at Southwold Theatre. So far we plan the programme as follows, while people gather in the foyer, we will play Henrik Gorecki's 3rd sympho...

Southend City Council - Service of Commemoration - HMD 2024 Public

Southend City Council - Service of Commemoration - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

Southend City Council will hold a Service of Commemoration on Sunday 28th January, 3pm at the Civic Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 6ER.

This annual event will include music, poetry and readings, with a presentation from a local secondary s...

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...

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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Hastings Remembers - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

The central story of the day will be of Emma Van Dam, who was born on the 18th of March 1933 in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. Emma had her 90th birthday last March and will be attending the event together with pupils from Hastings Academy who will...

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Viktor Frankl Centre - Freedom and Responsibility - HMD 2024

Wednesday, 24 January 2024,

Prof. Viktor Frankl was an Austrian Psychiatrist, Neurologist, Philosopher, and Holocaust Survivor. He founded the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy, known as Logotherapy & Existential Analysis; there are training institutes for therapist...

Shankill Library - Ambassadors for Peace Remembers - HMD 2024 Public

Shankill Library - Ambassadors for Peace Remembers - HMD 2024

Tuesday, 23 January 2024, - 16:30

Young people from the Lower Shankill and Falls will be undertaking a remembrance event at Shankill Library where they will unveil a photographic exhibition of their visits to Belfast Synagogue, Auschwitz Concentration Camp and will have affirmatio...