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This Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), we will come together to learn and remember. One way to engage in meaningful conversation around HMD is to share and listen to survivor experiences. This blog will show you five different ways that you could use survivor experiences in your HMD activity this year.

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) offers museums, galleries and heritage sites the opportunity to bring their communities together to reflect on lessons from the past and remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, and millions more people murdered through the Nazi persecution of other groups and in the more recent genocides recognised by the UK government. We also mark the genocide in Darfur.

We were joined by 200 people online as we launched brand new resources to support people across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2025.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Sir Sajid Javid as our next Chair.

Our preparations for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, have begun with the announcement of the theme and a special arts and education project. Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2025 will mark two significant milestones: 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex, and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia. Read here about our plans for this significant anniversary year.

This month we published the Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 Impact Report, which showcases the impact Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2024 had on communities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We also reflected on the year’s achievements at a small event with some of our stakeholders earlier this month.

On 26 January, people from across Wales came together to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) at a poignant ceremony in Cardiff. Watch the ceremony here.

The Scottish Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony was held on 30 January in the Scottish Parliament. Watch the full Ceremony here.

Northern Ireland came together on 23 January for a poignant and meaningful Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony in Belfast. Watch the Ceremony here.

People came together across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2024, culminating in the streaming of curated moments from the HMD 2024 UK Ceremony and the Light the Darkness national moment. Here we highlight just some of the ways Holocaust Memorial Day was marked this year.