Sheffield City Council – Ceremony – HMD 2026

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: Sheffield City Council

Website: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/your-city-council/holocaust-memorial-day

Address:
Cutlers Hall
7-15 Church Street
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 1HG
United Kingdom

Civil Vigil taking place on 27 January 2026: 5.30pm-7.00pm, Cutlers Hall 7-15 Church Street, Sheffield, S1 1HG. The vigil includes Civic speakers, community speakers, faith speakers, schools, music, an exhibition and a survivor story presention from the Northern Holocaust Education Group .

A display is taking placing from 20 -27 January 2026 at the Winter Garden 90 Surrey Street, Sheffield, S1 2HH (near Tudor Square)

Holocaust and Identity: the Refugee and the Survivor - a family story
Carpenter Room Sheffield Central Library, January 28 2026 , 6pm to 7pm

Author Michael Lewis will share his family's story of both fleeing, and surviving, the Holocaust. He will speak about his book "Flight from Prague: the Making of a Refugee" and his mother's memoir "A Time to Speak".

On the night of 30 September 1938, Harry Lewy flees for his life. At the stroke of a pen, Czechoslovakia’s border region, the Sudetenland, changes from a safe home to a place of danger for any Jew – which includes Harry. Fear and danger accompany him on his journey across Nazi Germany in search of sanctuary. Ultimately, he finds himself in the United Kingdom, alone, penniless and unwelcome. This story tells of one refugee’s flight towards a new life.

A Time to Speak by Helen Lewis is a memoir which traces her life from childhood in Czechoslovakia to her arrival in the UK. She recounts the growing persecution of Jews under Nazi rule, including the three years from her deportation from Prague to Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto, then to Auschwitz extermination camp and finally to Stutthof concentration camp where she was forced into slave labour. Against all odds she survived.

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