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The Postcard Project for Holocaust Memorial Day 2019 explored the theme: Torn from home. Participants learned about the life stories of survivors who were forced to flee their homes during the Holocaust and the Genocide in Cambodia, and wrote a message to them.

Watch highlights of the UK Online Commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023.

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust commissioned a special project entitled Moving Portraits. This is a collection of five photographs of genocide survivors, with each individual featured holding an object that holds significance to them.

To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2025, communities and organisations from across the UK will take part in a special nationwide arts and education project – 80 Candles for 80 Years.

Sir Martin Gilbert was a scholar and historian, who wrote extensively on the Holocaust.

This blog has been written by John Wood, the son of a soldier who was among the troops who entered Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945, to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp's liberation.

This resource supports teachers and youth leaders in engaging young people to explore experiences of persecution and discrimination through art.

Building on their first Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) event in 2016, for HMD 2017 the RBS Jewish Society organised a bigger commemorative event based on the HMD 2017 theme: How can life go on?

The Holocaust was a tragically defining episode of the 20th Century, a crisis for European civilisation and a universal catastrophe for humanity. It shook the foundations of modern civilisation and its unprecedented character and horror will always hold universal meaning.