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.
Holocaust Memorial Day occurs every year on January 27 - the anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau - and this year's service will take place at the Caister Municipal Cemetery in Ormesby Road, Caister.
From Darkness to Hope: The Journey of Lucy White
Hungarian-born Lucy White survived two Nazi concentration camps and two slave labour camps during the Second World War, before being liberated by the British Army. Her whole family were kille...
Suffolk Holocaust Memorial Day 2024
“FRAGILITY OF FREEDOM”
Lecture Theatre 1, Ground Floor
Waterfront Building
University of Suffolk,
IPSWICH, IP4 1QJ
Wednesday 24th January 2024 14:30-16:00
Our event i...
Held at the University Waterfront Building, Ipswich, Suffolk. Running from 2.30pm to 4pm the event draws together a number of community groups and statutory services to share reflections, poetry, music, art and other ways of marking the Holocaust ...
Belfairs Academy will be undertaking assemblies from the week commencing the 22 January that surround the theme 'Fragility of Freedom' that will be presented to all year groups.
Additionally, students will have worked together to create a di...
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...
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...
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...
Commemorations for Holocaust Memorial Day will be held on Monday 29 January 2024, at the War Memorial Garden on Church Walk.
Members of the public are welcome to attend the multi-faith service, which will commence at 10:30am.
Copies of...
We are delighted to welcome Anita Peleg, Sandra Miller and Dr Imogen Dalziel to give presentations in our school theatre on Tuesday 6th February 2024 from 2pm -430pm.
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...
Daily assemblies for students in years 7-12 on the theme of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides.
Display of art objects created by students for past HMD competitions:
2020, 75 Memorial Flame sculpture winner
2023 Extra Ordina...
Join us for an Author Talk with Diane Samuels
2pm 27 January 2024
FREE - booking required
Diane Samuels is a playwright whose work has been widely produced. Her play Kindertransport won the Verity Bargate and Meyer-Whitworth Aw...
Kindertransport by Diane Samuels: A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past.
4.00pm, 27 January 2024
Free - booking required
Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine...
Ashes to Light Concert
Nelly Ben-Or was imprisoned in the Lwow ghetto as a child and subsequently escaped to Warsaw where she spent years living under a false identity, narrowly evading recapture by the Nazis.
She would eventually set...
The story is set in January 1944 at an exclusive Catholic boys boarding school near Fontainebleau. Twelve-year-old Julien (Gaspard Manesse), a bright, popular pupil at the school, is asked by headmaster Père Jean to look after a new boy, the shy, ...
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 ...
[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...
Select students are being given the opportunity to hear from David Wirth, whose parents were survivors of the Nazi persecution in the Holocaust.
Students will benefit from a preparatory lesson the day before to ensure that they are better ab...
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...