Each year thousands of activities take place across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). Find activities near you by searching your postcode, or select ‘online activity’ to find activities happening online across the whole of the UK.
Hackney Council’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) Ceremony takes place at 10:00 on Wednesday 27 January 2021. This year’s event will be available to watch online via YouTube. The event is expected to last around 75 minutes.
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Somerset County Council will be posting content on our social media on be half of the Holocaust Memorial Day committee in Somerset.
A five-part story about a Holocaust survivor's visit to speak at a school in the UK. One chapter a day for the week of 25th to 29th January 2021. Written by Tom Palmer (author of After the War) and hosted by the National Literacy Trust. The story ...
Derbyshire Constabulary will be hosting an interactive, semi-structured interview with holocaust survivor, Hanneke Dye, about being a hidden child.
This will be an invite only event, with invitations extended to all 43 UK Police Forces
For many years the Interreligious Relations Department of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle has worked closely with two of our Diocesan secondary schools, St Mary's Newcastle and St Michael's Billin...
We'll be lighting a large tree in our local park. It's not only a Christmas tree - it's with us all year round and we light it for special occasions. It can be seen for miles.
i would like to invite members of the community in West Wales, members of the Jewish community, family and friends who knew my mother.
We are doing an online virtual event, due to Covid and hope to broadcast to a number of different countri...
Southampton will be marking the UK’s national Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day with a commemorative online event organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton together with Solen...
Year 6 Immersive Day - pupils will rotate around a carousel of workshops:
1. Stories, kinder transport, Nicholas Winton
2. History - Timeline Activity
3. Art - Lantern Installation
4. The very best of humanity, community co...
Christine Berberich, University of Portsmouth, discusses new approaches to educating secondary and university students about the Holocaust.
About this Event
Discover how new perspectives on Holocaust education can engage young people w...
To mark the day, the Mayor of Ramsgate, Councillor Raushan Ara, will host a virtual memorial service which will be pre-recorded and shown via the YouTube channel a few days before HMD. It will be followed by a Zoom meeting on 27 January at 2pm, w...
In 1939 Ruth Barnett arrived in Britain on the Kindertransport, the mission to bring around 10,000 children to the UK from Nazi Germany. In this 90 minute talk and Q&A, she will discuss her personal story and how her experiences relate to the ...
A Haiku is a form of poetry in three lines that focuses on a brief moment in time, and a sense of sudden illumination or enlightenment. Because it is short, anyone can have a go at a haiku. The focus of this on-line workshop will be on acts of kin...
Local poets, musicians and others gather with Adrienne Thomas to reflect on the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021, and we'll be including some short film clips too. At the end please join us in lighting a candle in our own homes during a two-m...
Local poets, musicians and others gather with Adrienne Thomas to reflect on the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021. At the end please join us in lighting a candle in our own homes during a two-minutes' silence.
To watch, email us on the ...
A panel presentation with a range of local speakers from activist groups including Lewes Organisation in Support of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (LOSRAS), the LGBT community, Extinction Rebellion and Amnesty International. Each panellist will prov...
We will be starting our event with a commemoration remembering all those who perished and suffered in the Holocasut and subsequent geoncides. We hope to have a presentation looking at the life of a little know local hero who was very instrumental ...
A special online service to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
As a group of churches in rural Pembrokeshire we want to make sure that we commit ourselves again to being a light in the darkness.
It will be a service of presentations, videos,...
Local TV Channel Set To Stream HMD in Brighton & Hove for Schools and Public
The Brighton & Hove Holocaust Education Project in partnership with Brighton & Hove City Council will be commemorating this year’s Holocaust Memorial D...
On 1st July 2020, the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers adopted a Recommendation for the first time calling on its 47 member states to include the history of Roma and/or Travellers in school curricula and teaching materials.
Frien...