Digital Exhibitions

Here you can view the wonderful work created by young people across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). Each of these exhibitions represents a historic theme for HMD and showcases the impactful and thoughtful artistry of young people.

Each exhibition showcases the winning artworks or photography submitted for our youth art competitions held for Holocaust Memorial Days 2021, 2022 and 2023.

If you have been inspired by the exhibitions, click here to find out how to make your own portrait.

To find out more information about the digital exhibitions, please contact [email protected].

Top image: Silhouette of life by Bethany Moon, one of the winning photographs from the Light up the darkness youth competition held for HMD 2021

[Extra]Ordinary Portraits

[Extra]Ordinary Portraits is a collection of artworks that reveal the ‘extraordinary elements of seemingly ordinary people’. We partnered with The Royal Drawing School and asked young people across the UK to learn about someone affected by the Holocaust, genocide or identity-based persecution and create a portrait of them. An expert judging panel have chosen thirty to be displayed for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023.

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One Day Photography exhibition

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2022 was One Day. To find out what this theme meant to young people across the UK, we asked them to send us a photo that finished the sentence ‘One day...’.

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Light up the darkness exhibition

In 2021, we teamed up with Girlguiding, National Union of Students, Scouts and Union of Jewish Students to launch our first youth photography competition, Light up the darkness.

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