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.
"Through these pale cold days."
When my wife and myself visited Auschwitz and Birkenau during a bitterly cold February 1997, I came across the photographs of this young woman.
What struck me, as she looked into the camera that day, w...
Display to reflect Holocaust Memorial Day along side a special display on the Millisle Kibbutz.
On Tues 28th January 2025, St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art will host an event for our local primary school which commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day through guest speakers, workshops and art activities.
In the lead up to the even...
From 8pm on Monday 27th January, we plan to light up in purple the Markinch building of Heart of Fife Parish Church. This is in the centre of the historic village of Markinch in Fife.
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Holocaust Memorial Service, 11am at Saltcoats War Memorial. Short service, minutes silence, Pipers lament and blessing. Hosted by the Saltcoats, Ardrossan and Stevenston (SAS) Branch of Legion Scotland.
Glasgow Caledonian University is commemorating the eightieth anniversaries of the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of the Second World War in Europe with three talks on the themes of criminality in war, military occupation, and their effects on...
For this event, we are honoured to be hosting speakers whose parents were survivors of the Holocaust, and who made a life in Scotland. As many of those who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust first-hand are no longer with us, we now look to t...
We will have our Lessons from Auschwitz pupils sharing their experiences, the music department performing and a speaker from Generation to Generation sharing her family’s story.
To commemorate HMD this year, Shirley Lennon from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust will visit Newry and Mourne Museum to tell the story of Edith Jacobowitz, who escaped from Germany in 1938.
The session will focus on how Edith arrived in No...
Join us in commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day by exploring a selection of books that reflect on the Holocaust
Online service on Zoom to include celebration of 80th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and remembering 30th Anniversary of genocide in Bosnia. There will be hymns, prayers and times of reflection.
On the morning of 29th January, G2G speaker Noreen Plen with present, remotely, the story of her parents, Jan Kurz-Bernstein and Lola Waksman and their Polish Jewish families. Both were survivors of the Holocaust.
The presentation will be ...
Mr Bayne will be visiting the library to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day by delivering a talk on WW2 and Heroes and speaking about Rob the War Dog. This talk takes place at 10:30am.
Join us in commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day by exploring a selection of books that reflect on the Holocaust
Light up of iconic local landmark-the Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow sculptures to mark the day with a corresponding post on our Inverclyde Council social media channels
An hour in the evening with music, stories and reflection for the 80th anniversary. Sunday January 26th at 6.30pm
St Peter ad Vincula Church, Ashwater, Beaworthy, Devon EX21 5EY
We created a sway that was sent around all Perth and Kinross Council Staff to give facts and information that Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place every year on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest N...
Key buildings around town including Perth Bridge and St Pauls Square will be illuminated in purple in the evening to mark holocaust memorial day. As well as illuminating in purple ‘Moving Portraits’ resources from the HMD site are used to create a...
Dir: James Hawes | 2024 | 109 Mins | Certificate 12
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham-Carter and Johnny Flynn, ‘One Life’ tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to Wor...
Exhibition of events relating to pre-war Jewish life and culture, through the Nazi's rise to power, anti-Semitic acts and laws and culminating in events from the Holocaust. Exhibition will be open weekdays from January 20th until January 27th incl...