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.
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 ...
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While the Holocaust is remembered rightly as an act of genocide against Europe’s Jewish population, the Nazis also sent close to 250,000 people with disabilities to their deaths. (Source: Holocaust Memorial Day Trust)
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The Closer Than You Think project and Queer Culture Counts (Peter Moorcraft, Martin Adams & Vinojan Sebanalai) in collaboration with Robert Flood (art installation) & Dalia Halpern at Chatham memorial Synagogue intend to illuminate The Shi...
'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.
GoodVibes is YMCA Swansea's LGBTQ+ youth group that meets in Person at YMCA Swansea every Tuesday 6-8pm. This HMD we will be paying respect by creating and lighting candles and in on honor of those LGBTQ persons who were persecuted and those who s...
We have a poster designed with quote from the Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and Norma Glass, a member of the Welsh Jewish community, which will be uploaded on our social media platforms on the 27th of January 2025.
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...
Our guest speaker, Melanie Martin, will share the story of Tootje (Cato) Granaat (1926 – 2020) on Tuesday, 28th January 2025, from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions towards the end of the session.
St John Lloyd Catholic School are proud to be supporting the Holocaust theme for this year 'For a Better Future'. Year 8 will be leading assembly, bringing awareness to the school community and securing a better future for all.
We held an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau which included talks, from local activists presentation from students at Coleg Sir Gar and the viewing of a recording made by one of our organisers of an interv...
There will be a ceremony in Crawley's Memorial Gardens, poetry reading and candle lighting (weather permitting)
A Holocaust Memorial event including talks and screening of recently filmed interview with camp survivor in Poland. Memorial candle will be lit at 11am.
80 Years Since Auschwitz: Horsham Commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day
On Monday, 27 January 2025, Horsham District Council commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day. Flags were lowered to half-mast, and the Capitol Theatre was illuminated in purp...
Tunbridge Wells Branch of Oddfellows are hosting a talk at the Ex-Services Club in East Grinstead. The talk is 'The Story of Major Leonard Berney, one of the first of the Allied troops to enter Belsen camp on 15th April 1945.
The talk given ...
Description in our Church Newsletter reads:
Monday 27th January at 5.00pm
Annual Holocaust Memorial Service
This Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz- Birkenau, the largest Nazi ...
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor is coming to talk our year 9s about her father's plight in the concentration camps and his life thereafter.
Year 10 will have an hour session with a representative of a Holocaust survivor's family, organised through Generation2Generation having been booked for a number of months.
ASSEMBLES for the full week to years 7-11. Focus on antisemitism rising following 7/10 attacks. What is holocaust denial and how to report hate crimes. Ending the assembly with focus on Bosnian genocide and impact on Muslims and Islamophobia. Mess...
Students in every year group at Bennett Memorial School from year 7-year 13 will have a HMD themed assembly in the week 27th to 31st Jan.
There will be a display of our HMD objects that were winners in the arts competitions: 75 memorial fla...