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.
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...
Join The Welfare Ystradgynlais and the Josef Herman Art Foundation Cymru for a moving and thought-provoking event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), observed annually on 27th January to honour the memory of the millions who suffered under Nazi ...
In partnership with the Miners' Welfare Hall, Ystradgynlais, Powys, where Josef spent every day reading the news of what was happening in Europe during the War, the Josef Herman Art Foundation Cymru is showing, 'A Real Pain'. The film shows how tw...
Book display in main area of Yatton library - selection of fiction and non-fiction adult material for borrowers to take.
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
An event will take place in the Senedd at lunchtime on Wednesday 22 January involving cross-party Members of the Senedd and Welsh Government representatives.
Southend City Council will be holding a service of commemoration on Sunday 26th January, 3pm at the Civic Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 6ER. We will welcome holocaust survivor Paul Sved, BEM, to give an address at this service, which will also inc...
Join us at Gellionnen Unitarian Chapel, Pontardawe, for our Holocaust Memorial Service, led by our minister Rev. Rory Castle Jones. The theme of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day is 'For a better future'. An hour of community, spirituality and re...
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...
Finding Ivy is an exhibition curated by Dr. Helen Atherton (University of Leeds) and focuses on the experiences of British-born victims of the Nazi war on disabled people. The exhibition tells the story of Ivy Angerer and 12 other British-born vic...
The Medway Holocaust Memorial Day Event will take place at Cliffe Woods Primary School on Tuesday 28 January 2025 from 6pm, with refreshments from 5:30pm
The event includes presentations and payers by students from local schools and Medway ...
Art Central Gallery, Barry South Wales will be presenting its 18th Holocaust Memorial Day Exhibition.
The 27th of January 2025, will be Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) where many remember a scarred world sadly drenched...
We are starting the day with an engagement activity at the Police Learning Centre located at South Wales Police Headquarters. We are asking Officers, Students, and Staff to write what Holocaust Memorial Day means to them, on a purple post-it, and ...
'In Discussion' Hosted by Raegan Kingett is an event that includes leading academics from the University of Winchester and University of Southampton on the field of Holocaust and Genocide studies through an inter-disciplinary lens. This event will...
Union of Jewish Students invites students from across London to hear from Holocaust survivor Ivan Shaw BEM on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, HMD 80.
Sgwrs Astudiaethau Lleol
Anne Cardenas - "Oral Histories of the Kindertransport in Wales"
25 Ionawr
2pm yn yr Ystafell Ddarganfod, llawr cyntaf Llyfrgell Ganolog Abertawe.
Local Studies Talk
-Anne Cardenas - "Ora...