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An exhibition in the library about the Holocaust for pupils and staff to visit. Ceremony on the 27th with viewing of this year's HMD film followed by poetry reading and lighting of a candle. Pupils and staff asked to sign the Harlaw Academy Book...

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) – is held internationally on 27 January to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in genocides that followed...

At the University of Aberdeen we commemorate HMD every year with an evening of "Music & Meditation". Our community comes together to hear readings and poetry delivered by representatives of persecuted groups and to listen to the University Cho...

Holocaust Memorial Day Book Display.
During library opening hours.

The International School for Peace Studies in Londonderry held a series of Holocaust workshops for 6 weeks with 3 separate groups throughout the council area. This project was funded by Good Relations Derry & Strabane District Council.

This short service will mark Holocaust Memorial Day and include animated videos produced at Falmouth University and speeches from the community groups. Speeches will also be delivered from the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall Colonel Edward Bolitho and...

Reflections & prayers from Iona Abbey, with music from island musicians, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. We'll be remembering people who were murdered for who they were and will be standing firmly against prejudice and hatred today.

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Planting of a special oak tree to commemorate the thousands of Jewish refugees who managed to find refuge in Britain from Nazi persecution in Europe, and the massive contribution they have since made to every aspect of British culture, industry an...

Baron Cashman of Limehouse, CBE is the guest speaker at the Jersey Commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day 2022. He will also lay a wreath on behalf of the families of the 21 Islanders who died in German concentration camps and prisons at the Ligh...

Fraserburgh Academy will be organizing a IDL learning project for our S1 & S2 pupils to participate in based around the theme of this years HMD. We will also hear from our senior pupils who have participated in the Lessons from Auschwitz proje...

Virtual talk followed by a Q&A session between local resident Kathy Hagler, survivor of the Munkacs Ghetto in Ruthenia, and pupils in Primary 7 at Cradlehall Primary School.

Accounts and pictures from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust photocopied and pinned on a 3 part dispay board on top of a table with copies, of most of which is pinned on the board, to take away to read and share with others.

A time of personal reflection in the oratory using HMD resources, music and readings.

Libraries NI Event
Belfast Central Library Presents : A Day to Remember, stories for Holocaust Memorial Day. An online adult storytelling event.
Delivered via Zoom.

Libraries NI Event
Lisnaskea Library Yarnspinners Presents : A Day to Rembember, Stories for Holocaust Memorial Day. An online storytelling session for adults delivered via Zoom

Talk from Generation To Generation to our employees, sharing the story of an Auschwitz survivor.

On Holocaust Memorial Day an English Oak tree was planted on Southampton Common to commemorate 80 years of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)

The AJR launched a special campaign called ‘80 Trees for 80 Years’ to mark its 80th annivers...

Holocaust Memorial Day is One Day – 27 January – that we put aside to come together to remember, to learn about the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, in the hope that there may be O...

Heather Morris, author of ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ on Zoom
Thursday 27 January, 19:30

We are so so sad that Heather Morris, author of ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz, ‘Cilka’s Journey’ and latterly ‘Three Sisters’ will not now be join...