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Each year tens of thousands of activities take place across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). As we get closer to January, explore our interactive map to see HMD activities happening in 2025. Enter your post code to find activities near you - those marked 'public' are open to everyone.

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CONTIX - Light The Darkness - 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

Contix provides vulnerable people with a safe home and supportive environment, inspiring positive change and encouraging them to live independently in the community. We are based in Sheffield and we work with individuals with a history of homeless...

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Chesterfield Stand Up to Racism - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

This will be a formal event starting at 4.45pm in the main Market Square in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The event is hosted and co-ordinated by Cllr Ed Fordham.
There is a facebook event: Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
There will be readin...

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Calderdale Interfaith - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

Evensong on the Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday 26th January at 4pm in Halifax Minster, led by The Revd Canon Hilary Barber and Rabbi Douglas Chairing. This is the formal commemoration for the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale.

80 Candles Quilt Workshops with Every Stitch A Story - HMD 2025 Public

80 Candles Quilt Workshops with Every Stitch A Story - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 30 October 2024,

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Join Community Arts Practitioner Laura Burrill to explore stories of some of those affected by the Holocaust and help create a slow stitch patchwork memory quilt to bear witn...

Multi-Faith Centre Derby - Ceremony - HMD 2025 Public

Multi-Faith Centre Derby - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

As we mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau join us at the Multi Faith Centre to see the collaboratively produced 80 Candles Quilt and learn about some of those documented.

10am - Welco...

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Memorial Quilt Workshop - HMD 2025 Public

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Memorial Quilt Workshop - HMD 2025

Friday, 18 October 2024,

Join Community Arts Practitioner Laura Burrill to explore stories of some of those affected by the Holocaust and help create a slow stitch patchwork memory quilt to bear witness for those who endured genocide, and honour the survivors and all thos...

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St Thomas' CE Primary - Survivor Speaker - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 29 January 2025,

A speaker from 'The Northern Holocaust Education Group' will be visiting our school again in January to talk to our children about the Holocaust, sharing his mothers experience and the events that took place involving his mother.

Jewish Museum London, The Leon Greenman Archive - HMD 2025 Public

Jewish Museum London, The Leon Greenman Archive - HMD 2025

Thursday, 16 January 2025,

For Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, Jewish Museum London are proud to present for the first time, items from the newly formed Leon Greenman Archive, on display at Bradford Reform Synagogue. Split into five distinct periods of British Holocaust surviv...

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Boston Spa Methodist Church - Coffee morning talk - HMD 2025

Saturday, 25 January 2025,

Author Ainslie Hepburn will give a talk about her latest book 'In the Footsteps of the Holocaust: The Story and Letters of a German Jewish Family' which details her family's experiences. It is the biography of Hermann Hartog (a Jewish teacher in ...

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Bury Council - Poetry Recital and Share of Memories - HMD 2025

Thursday, 30 January 2025,

Bury is hosting our annual Holocaust Memorial Event on Thursday 30th January.

The event is invite-only to attend in person but the event will be streamed online at www.bury.gov.uk

The event sees young people from local schools narra...

Loughborough Council of Faiths - Ceremony - HMD 2025 Public

Loughborough Council of Faiths - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

A simple ceremony open to everyone
In Queens Park, Loughborough,
Monday 27th January 2025 at 12 noon.
The Mayor of Charnwood will read the Declaration of Commitment.
Then everyone present is invited to place a pebble on the...

University of York - "My Family in Exile" - HMD 2025 Public

University of York - "My Family in Exile" - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 29 January 2025,

The University of York is honored to welcome Dame Stephanie Shirley CH for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Lecture.

In this profound and inspiring talk, Dame Stephanie will share her family’s experience of escaping Nazi persecution, their l...

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - A Musical Exhibition - HMD 2025 Public

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - A Musical Exhibition - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

Postscript is a concert to be hosted in honour of Holocaust Memorial Day in 2025, combining music and testimony of Holocaust survivors, victims and those affected. In holding a space for education and memorial, we aim to highlight the importance o...

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BSMHFT (NHS) - Awareness table - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

27.1.24 10am - 2pm at Uffculme Conference Centre, Moseley, Birmingham
Delivered by Spiritual Care Team at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Public event - main audience is NHS staff members, visitors and patien...

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St Annes Hebrew Congregation - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Friday, 24 January 2025,

The service takes place annually at the synagogue and involved students from local non Jewish schools and a keynote speaker. The service is held at 10.30am on Friday the 24 January 2025 and ends at approximately 12 noon. Local dignitaries, Mayor...

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Shrewsbury Abbey - Poetry - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

Poems by victims of the Holocaust, followed by poems from other conflicts and genocides, and finishing with a few poems of hope for the future.
The event begins with a brief introduction, setting the Holocaust in its original historical cont...