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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.

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...

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...

Public

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 ...

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...

Bletchley Park -Talk by Christian Jennings - HMD 2025 Public

Bletchley Park -Talk by Christian Jennings - HMD 2025

Saturday, 25 January 2025,

Decrypting the German coding system called Domino, used by the SS and German Police to encipher secret messages about the Final Solution, was one of Bletchley Park’s less well-known wartime achievements. For four years, from 1941 to 1944, Codebrea...

Public

BGCBC Lighting up The General Offices - Ebbw Vale - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

On the evening of the 27th January 2025, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council will light up The General Office council building on Steel Works Road. This is in acknowledgement of Holocaust Memorial Day 2025.

Private

Holocaust Education Programme - Richmond Synagogue - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

As in the previous years we are holding half day sessions for all the year 9 students of the Richmond secondary schools. These sessions include a speaker (survivor or survivor's child), several films and a workshop in which the students are divid...

"Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life" - Online Talk - HMD 2025 Public

"Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life" - Online Talk - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 29 January 2025,

From 1940 to 1941 around 70,000 adults with mental and physical disabilities living in institutions across Germany and Austria were systematically killed under a Nazi state-led programme called Aktion T4. The victims were deemed to have 'lives unw...