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

‘Who would have thought that my journey would take me from the hell of Auschwitz to tea at Buckingham Palace?!’ Attending a Royal Garden Party with Lily is a memory that will stay with me forever, and one that I will always treasure.

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.

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) offers workplaces the opportunity to bring employees together to reflect on lessons from the past and remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups and during more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

This year we have partnered with 2Simple to create a range of resources on the Purple Mash platform to encourage more primary schools to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). These online activities build on the Primary School Assembly that introduces pupils to HMD, the Holocaust and discrimination in an age-appropriate way. The resources encourage pupils to think about consequences and impact of discrimination on those targeted.