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.
Our whole school assembly marks the memorial day, we have done this every year.
It will include facts about the Holocaust and will include poetry and readings from survivors.
We have historically always had a visiting survivor bu...
Friday 26th January, Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations began with a wreath-laying ceremony in St John's Gardens.
Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Mary Rasmussen was joined by political leaders, Rabbi Natan Fagleman and MJRC Vice Presi...
The Mayor of Sefton June Burns and three councilors from Sefton Council as well as our local Priest, Fr. Faustinus are dedicating a portrait, plaque and bench as permanent memorial to Fay Healey.
Fay spent a large part of her life workin...
Yellow House have been at the forefront of direct work with young people throughout Merseyside, UK and Europe working on a daily basis at our own Centre and in schools, colleges and other youth agencies - as well as major theatre, art and social p...
At the Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room, we are performing Stumbling Stones, a show based on the book Villa Russo: A Jewish Story by Julia Nelki on 28th & 29th January 2024. The piece interweaves the family’s stories with testimony and poetry...
As part of United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, New Vic Borderlines presents YIZKOR written and directed by Sue Moffat, with support from the Imperial War Museum Fellowship in Holocaust Education and Val and Ibi Ginsburg, survivors of Ausch...
We will be holding a discussion of the impact of the holocaust and some residents will be lighting candles in remembrance of the victims.
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) in partnership with our UNSION Branch will:
A short service for staff including lighting a candle with prayers from local Rabbi. Representatives from the Liverpool Jewish community will ...
Tue 23 Jan, 1 – 2pm
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield S1 2PP
Free, booking recommended
Hear Professor Philip Spencer, Terezia Rostas and Professor Marius Turda in conversation, as they discuss the history and aftermath of the Holoca...
Tue 23 Jan, 11am – 3pm
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, S1 2PP
Free, just drop in
Join us to mark Holocaust Memorial Day with an afternoon of talks, film screenings, stalls and creative activities at the Millennium Gallery.
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A special talk, film show and virtual visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Memorial Day.
2pm Michael Ruddy, V&A Wedgwood Collection, a talk on the "Wedgwood Family and Factory rescuing European Refugees 1933-1945"
2:45...
Developed with the support of the Imperial War Museum Fellowship in Holocaust Education.
As part of United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, New Vic Borderlines present YIZKOR
‘The best play about the Holocaust that I have ever se...
Following a day of education workshops with Y10 students form 3 local schools, we will be hosting an Interfaith Genocide Memorial Day at Tranmere Rovers FC.
We are hoping local councillors, Council officers, faith leaders, teachers and oth...
Concert of Yiddish songs and readings from the ghettos prior to liquidation by the Nazis. Plus an exhibition on how Christians and Muslims saved Jews from the Nazis.
Attendance includes dignitaries from across South Yorkshire.
6pm for ...
This event will tell the story of Ernst and Gertrud Neustadt, a German Jewish couple who fled to England in late 1939, and who are buried in the graveyard of St Helen's church in Wakefield. The talk will be given by Charlie Knight, who explored Er...
A peaceful vigil with time for silent contemplation starting at 5pm
We are holding a vigil at Craven College in Skipton between 12-1pm on Friday 26th January where students and staff can come and light candles. Some of our arts students have made leaves (from different materials) to represent fallen people we’ve s...
A vigil outside Skipton Town Hall
All forms will see two Loom assemblies about HMD.
These looms will include examples of what freedom means to staff and examples of how freedoms have been taken away during the Holocaust.
Pupils will have guided discussions in form time...
Residents across the borough are invited to join us the Council, The Mayor of Rotherham, local faith leaders and dignitaries, and local partners to remember and commemorate those who have lost their lives during genocides across the world.
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