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.
Taking place at the Hackney Picturehouse from 10am, and in partnership with Hackney Council we will be screening three Holocaust themed short film after which there will be a Q&A with Holocaust education experts. Focusing on this year’s HMD t...
The community comes together to remember the Holocaust through music, reading and prayer. The memorial service is led by Rev. Sue and readings, lighting of the 5 candles and choir provided by the children of Caerleon Comprehensive School.
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To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day and 80 years of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Austrian Cultural Forum London is delighted to present a special concert by the renowned international singer Timna Brauer. She will be accompanied on ...
V&A Schools Live: Careers Insights with The Blue Skies Project’s Anton Kusters and Ruben Samama
Thursday, 30 January 2025, 15.30 – 16.30
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Jewish Greens, with support from other Green Party special groups, are hosting an online Holocaust Memorial Day event, at 6:30pm on Wednesday 22nd January 2025, to hear the story of Alice Svarin, told by her daughter Vera.
Alice Svarin was...
Sudan has been at war for longer than it has been at peace. The Sudanese people have been plagued by genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes since independence in 1956.
In 2003, a civil war began in the region between the sedent...
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.
This year's theme is "for a better future".
Our event in Ha...
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...
Join this free webinar from the Historical Association to learn about the work of two Holocaust Education charities, Generation 2 Generation (G2G) and Northern Holocaust Education Group (NHEG), which provide accredited speakers to schools and othe...
Bristol City Council City Hall building light up in Purple for Holocaust Memorial Day. Lights will be on from dusk until Midnight.
‘For a Better Future’: Remembering the Holocaust in Bath and North East Somerset
A special ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, is taking place in Bath on January 27.
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...
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...
Castell Coch will be illuminated as part of the Light the darkness campaign.
Holocaust Memorial Day event including a survivor 's story, school presentation, music, speaker from Syria, the Croydon pledge read by the Mayor.
We will be planting 50 trees - grant funding has been secured from Bath & North East Somerset Council by Gavin Heathcote and Nathan Hartley through a third party charity.
The Welsh Government Building in Cardiff will be lit in purple to mark Light the Darkness
Short act of remembrance focussing on Jane Haining from Dunscore village who died in Auschwitz
in 1944. She was the matron of the Scottish Mission to the Jews School in Budapest from 1932 until her death.
Pupils from Dunscore Primary ...
This is an annual service of remembrance for those who lost their lives in the Holocaust. The service, which takes place each year, will be led by Harvey J.Newman, Warden of Colchester & District Jewish Community (Kehilat Yehudim) and is prese...