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.
The free event will include a varied programme including:
• Informative live presentations & testimonies of survivors – including Eastbourne's very own Dorit Oliver-Wolff BEM
• Poems/readings – Claverham Community College (Battle)<...
Starts Monday 15th January until Wednesday 30th January. At Bangor Carnegie library, Northern Ireland.
An private event with a survivor from the Holocaust as the main speaker.
The central story of the day will be of Emma Van Dam from 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 also be taking a full role in the eve...
We created individual flames and on each had different ways and reasons we commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. We then put the flames together to create a large candle.
Prior to this event, every single pupil in the school will be taking part in a lesson to commemorate HMD. The lesson will focus on this year's theme, 'Fragility of Freedom.' Pupils will be asked to create a paper bubble and on that bubble they wer...
Love in a Cold World.
A collaboration between the painter Leslie Nicholl and the wonderful musicians from the Brighton based Life and Death Orchestra.
Leslie Nicholl has produced 20 paintings based on the internationally acclaimed op...
This event is the annual LGBTQIA+ Holocaust Memorial & Act of Remembrance at Belfast City Hall. This event is organised each year by the LGBTQIA+ charities Cara-Friend, Here NI and The Rainbow Project.
This small gathering remembers al...
Join us for an evening to celebrate the legacy of dancer and teacher, Helen Lewis (1916 – 2009), who survived Auschwitz and went on to teach modern dance in Belfast. On Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 we will screen two films that reflect Helen’s life...
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) would like to invite you to an event exploring the impact of two genocides of the mid 1990s that shocked the world.
Speakers will reflect and remembe...
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To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, writer, and dancer Maddy Tongue joins us to talk about her fifty-year friendship with fellow dancer and teacher, Helen Lewis (1916 – 2009), who survived Auschwitz and went on to teach modern dance in Bel...
Rathcoole library marks holocaust memorial day with a week long display beginning Monday 22nd January, during library opening hours.
Braes High School will be hosting a Holocaust Memorial Day assembly to remember all those who have lost their lives to genocide.
This event will take place on the 7th February 2024. Doors will open at 1530 and the event will finish at 1630.<...
Join us at the Northern Ireland War Memorial on Thursday 25 January 2024 from 7pm-8:30pm as we mark Holocaust Memorial Day with a FREE lecture titled 'A Haven from Hitler - The Story of Jewish refugees who came to Northern Ireland in the 1930s and...
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...
Many local communities in Scotland are holding an event to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz on 27th January 1945. Falkirk Council Provost Robert Bissett is teaming up with Central Scotland Interfaith to mark the occasion with a short Act of...
A short commemorative even held in conjunction with Falkirk Council Provost Robert Bissett, with music, silence, and candle lighting. Gather at CSREC in the Howgate Centre for 2pm.
Year 11 GCSE History students will be studying the persecution of minorities in Nazi Germany.
They will focus on the persecution of the Jews and other minority groups in Germany 1933-39.
They will also learn about the escalation of per...
Glengormley Library marks Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 by hosting a Dementia Friendly Workshop by the NI War Memorial. This will take place on Wednesday 24th January from 10.30-11.30am
Booking is advised - please call 028 9083 3797.
Talk: a Kindertransport Child, the story of Otto Deutsch (Stewart Raine, Jewish community) (Y5 upwards)
Film and talk: showing of ‘Porrajmos’, the Nazi genocide of the Gypsy, Roma and Sinti peoples (Lizzie Small, Romany community) (Y8 upwar...