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.
Genocide never just happens. There is always a set of circumstances which occur or which are created to build the climate in which genocide can take place. To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, we present an exhibition of 10 contemporary objects ...
A reading of poetry of the Holocaust, and poetry by survivors of other genocides.
There will be two readers, and will will read poems in three sections:
(1) Poems written during the Holocaust in camps and prisons, that speak of impris...
Lancaster's annual Holocaust Memorial Day event 2024
Event hosted by More Music held at Lancaster Town Hall. Thursday 25th January 6.00pm-8.00pm
Candlelighting ceremony remembering all who lost their lives during the holocaust, subse...
Candle lighting and prayers and commemorations at Lancaster Gardens of Remembrance adjacent to Lancaster Town Hall.
Join us for a ceremony of reflection and candle lighting followed by music, spoken word and reflections in the banqueting su...
A commemorative service has been organised in St John's Church in Peterborough commencing at 12 noon, this will be followed by a brief wreath laying service at the Memorial stone in St John's square.
On Friday 26th January- all students will take part in a full day of lessons based on different aspects of the Holocaust and genocides. This will include listening to survivor testimony and focusing on a range of individual experiences across dif...
VINTAGE 1940s DANCE PARTY - MORECAMBE - Saturday 27th January
we look forward to the Morecambe Jive - at the War Memorial Hall, Church Street, Morecambe, LA4 5PR.
Optional Dress Code - something vintage
All are welcome and the ni...
The Warwick HMD event will be on FRIDAY 26TH JANUARY 2024 at 11.30am by the War Memorial in Church Street, Warwick, to allow local schools to take part as usual.
Here in Warwick, as in previous years, we shall have a short street event.<...
10.15am - Procession from Redditch Town Hall to Redditch Holocaust Memorial
10.30am - Service Commemorating victims of Holocausts.
After the Service - People will be invited into the library to view and contribute to an art and poetry ...
We will be hosting an Assembly featuring a guest speaker from the Generation2Generation.
Anita will then be leading an A-Level workshop and a Year 9 whole year group session.
We have also written poetry that will be read out during our...
1st Redditch Girls' Brigade are doing a craft activity looking at the theme Holocaust Memorial Day 2024.
The N;counta and N;Spire sections will be looking at life stories, as well as elements of the theme vision to create an art piece that w...
The arrangements for the day in brief are as follows:
From 10.15am - Meet inside Redditch Library
10.30am - Holocaust Ceremony followed by refreshments
If possible, please could you wear something with purple and/or black on.
In Redditch, we have decided to commemorate this important day by expressing our feelings creatively and bringing our ideas together in a piece of artwork to display in the library. For 2024, the image of small birds of different varieties (not bi...
Hall worship to take place throughout the week for all Houses.
Tutor group worship based on the life of Leon Greenman and the Fragility of Freedom.
Year 10 and 11 to watch the live webcast of a survivor.
A Service of Remembrance to honour the 6,000,000 Jews who died in the Nazi Holocaust and the multiple thousands who have died in holocausts since then.
Prayers will be offered, memorial candles will be lit and a short address given.
Holocaust Memorial Day
West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on Friday 26 to remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust under Nazi persecution and in genocides in Rwanda, Cambod...
This year Huntcliff School has marked Holocaust Memorial Day with a week of form time activities for Year 7 to 10 including an introduction to key words relevant to the Holocaust adapted from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust activity pack, watchin...
A showing of the One Life film about Nicholas Winton and an accompanying talk by Vivien Sieber whose grandmother was one of the warden carers who looked after the Kindertransport girls at the hostel in Windermere village.
Westmorland and Furness Council is lighting up its Town Halls in purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD).
From dusk on Friday 26th January to the morning of Monday 29th January, Barrow Town Hall, Kendal Town Hall and Penrith Town Hall w...
A multi-faith civic service at King's Lynn Town Hall from noon.
Members of the Christian and Muslim community will join with schools and other organisations to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Readings, poetry and song combine for a moving...