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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.

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Oastlers School - School Assembly - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 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...

Private

All Hallows Catholic College - Lessons from Auschwitz - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

The History department and two year 13 students who attending the Lessons From Auschwitz course in October will lead a reflection in morning Liturgical Prayers from Monday to Friday.
These will take place between 8:55am and 9:15am. This will...

New Vic Borderlines - YIZKOR - HMD 2024 Public

New Vic Borderlines - YIZKOR - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

10 am performance of Yizkor - docu-drama on Holocaust
12 am performance of Yizkor - docu-drama on Holocaust

New Vic Borderlines in partnership with Huddersfield University presents Yizkor as a part of the United Nations Holocaust Memo...

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Highland Friends of Israel - Holocaust Display - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

We are using our gazebo and stall to display the history of the Holocaust and what happened, pinning up the display on the outside of the gazebo to make the information easier for folks to see.
There will also be Life Stories of the Jews in ...

Public

Highland Friends of Israel - Holocaust Display - HMD 2024

Friday, 19 January 2024,

We will be using the HMD material giving the history of the Holocaust and what happened.
Life Stories of Jews affected by the Holocaust are on display as well.
There will be copies of the information pinned up so the informaion of what...

Cheshire East Council - Holocaust Memorial Day Service - HMD 2024 Public

Cheshire East Council - Holocaust Memorial Day Service - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

The Mayor of Cheshire East, Councillor Rod Fletcher, invites everyone to join him at the Council’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day Service at Macclesfield Town Hall at 11.00am on Friday 26 January 2024. The Service should last for about an hour.

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Private

The King's Academy - Assembly - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

During the week of the 22nd January, students and teachers at The Kings, Kidsgrove will be taking part in assemblies that provides an insight into victims and survivors of The Holocaust and Genocides that have followed.
Throughout this year ...

Public

Shrewsbury Abbey - Poetry for Dark Times - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

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...

Leeds City Council - Civic Remembrance Event - HMD 2024 Public

Leeds City Council - Civic Remembrance Event - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

City Varieties Music Hall Swan Street, Leeds LS1 6LW

Join the Lord Mayor for an afternoon of commemoration. The theme for this year’s event is ‘Fragility of Freedom’.

The event is free, but seats are limited. Tickets are available fr...

Opera North - Fragility of Freedom: Terezin Lieder - HMD 2024 Public

Opera North - Fragility of Freedom: Terezin Lieder - HMD 2024

Thursday, 25 January 2024,

For the third year in succession, the Howard Assembly Room presents a concert commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, which this year has the theme Fragility of Freedom.

Pianist and Leeds Lieder director Joseph Middleton, together with barito...

New Vic Borderlines - YIZKOR - HMD 2024 Public

New Vic Borderlines - YIZKOR - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

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...

Brampton Museum - Talk and Film Show - HMD 2024 Public

Brampton Museum - Talk and Film Show - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

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...

New Vic Borderlines - Yizkor docu-drama -HMD 2024 Public

New Vic Borderlines - Yizkor docu-drama -HMD 2024

Monday, 22 January 2024,

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...

Public

Cleddau Community Arts - Commemoration - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

A public gathering to commemorate the Holocaust and learn together.

In person event being held at Pembrokeshire College on Saturday 27th January from 12pm to 3pm.

Organised by Cleddau Community Arts - contact Barbara Shone on 07969...

Staffs Moorlands District Council - Ceremony - HMD 2024 Public

Staffs Moorlands District Council - Ceremony - HMD 2024

Saturday, 27 January 2024,

It will be an event on the fragility of freedom taking as its basic text the Four Freedoms as enuciated by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941 . Freedom to worship and belief , Freedom of expression , Freedom from want and Freedom from fear

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St Helens Church - A Wakefield Holocaust Story - HMD 2024

Sunday, 28 January 2024,

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...

Public

Telford and Wrekin Council - Civic Event - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Welcome by the Mayor of the Borough of Telford and Wrekin
Introduction by a Council Member
Guest speaker - a Rwandan survivor, Anais Mutumba
Other speaker - second generation of survivors of the Holocaust, Dr Eve Clevenger
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Telford and Wrekin Council - Civic Commemoration - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

Please join us at our civic commemoration on Friday 26 January 2024 at Telford Theatre, Limes Walk, Telford TF2 6EP,arrivals will be from 10:00am for a 10.30am start.

The event will include reflection from guest speakers from the borough, a...

Huntcliff School - Remembering the Holocaust - HMD 2024 Private

Huntcliff School - Remembering the Holocaust - HMD 2024

Friday, 26 January 2024,

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...