Our resources can help you learn more about the Holocaust and genocide and plan your own HMD activity. Explore life stories of survivors and those who were murdered, virtual activities, schools materials, films, images and more. You can filter them by genocide and type of resource.
It Began with Words explores how the Holocaust began not with violence, but with words, with stereotypes, prejudice and silence. Through survivor testimony and historical insight, it shows how ordinary people and everyday choices allowed hatred to grow. By understanding how the Holocaust unfolded, we can recognise the warning signs of prejudice today and use our voices to stand against it.
Download our About HMD Flyer to give out at your Holocaust Memorial Day Activity. It provides more information about the Holocaust and about Holocaust Memorial Day.
Eva Clarke BEM was born under unimaginably harrowing circumstances in the final days of World War II. Her birth, on 29 April 1945, just outside the gates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, came just one day after the Nazis had run out of gas for the chambers and less than a week before liberation by the US Army.
Li-Da Kruger, an award-winning filmmaker and producer, was born in Cambodia in 1974. She was evacuated from her homeland as a young baby, just days before the Khmer Rouge orchestrated the genocide that claimed around two million lives between 1975 and 1979
Mala Tribich MBE was born Mala Helfgott in 1930 in Piotrkow, Poland. She was the second of three children with an older brother Ben, and a younger sister Lusia. Her early childhood was lost to the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. Mala and her family were forced into the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto – the first Nazi ghetto established in Poland. Life there was marked by overcrowding, severe malnutrition and the constant fear of deportation.
By the age of 30, Peter Lantos had endured the horrors of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, lost most of his family, suffered abuse at the hands of Hungary’s Communist police, earned a medical degree and defected to England.
This document has been produced by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) to provide guidance, help and support to Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) activity organisers ahead of HMD 2026 with any queries around marking HMD in the context of the conflict in the Middle East.
Order candles, stickers, flyers and pin badges to use in your Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) activity.
This set of worksheets and PowerPoint introduces teachers and learners to six different genocides through a key date, the experiences of one person, and the story of one artefact. The final worksheet explores more current issues around discrimination.
Yisrael Abelesz was just 14 years old when he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most infamous of all Nazi camps. Whilst there he escaped selection for the gas chambers and survived typhoid and a death march.