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.
Saul Ausländer is a member of the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners forced to assist in the machinery of the Nazi concentration camps. While at work, he discovers the body of a boy he recognises as his son. As the Sonderkommando plan a rebellio...
Contix provides vulnerable people with a safe home and supportive environment, inspiring positive change and encouraging them to live independently in the community. We are based in Sheffield and we work with individuals with a history of homeless...
Lighting HMD candles in remembrance and discussing HMD with the residents we support.
This will be a formal event starting at 4.45pm in the main Market Square in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The event is hosted and co-ordinated by Cllr Ed Fordham.
There is a facebook event: Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
There will be readin...
Evensong on the Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday 26th January at 4pm in Halifax Minster, led by The Revd Canon Hilary Barber and Rabbi Douglas Chairing. This is the formal commemoration for the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale.
Join the Lord Mayor for an afternoon of commemoration
The theme for this year’s event is ‘For a Better Future’
Sunday 26 January, 2pm
City Varieties Music Hall Swan Street, Leeds LS1 6LW
Free and open to all
The event...
2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Join Community Arts Practitioner Laura Burrill to explore stories of some of those affected by the Holocaust and help create a slow stitch patchwork memory quilt to bear witn...
As we mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau join us at the Multi Faith Centre to see the collaboratively produced 80 Candles Quilt and learn about some of those documented.
10am - Welco...
We are holding an event on a better future at St Edwards Church Leek . We will be involving local schools , a youth choir and a musical arrangement for the event . It is the 5th year we have held such an event
There will be readings , musi...
Join Community Arts Practitioner Laura Burrill to explore stories of some of those affected by the Holocaust and help create a slow stitch patchwork memory quilt to bear witness for those who endured genocide, and honour the survivors and all thos...
A speaker from 'The Northern Holocaust Education Group' will be visiting our school again in January to talk to our children about the Holocaust, sharing his mothers experience and the events that took place involving his mother.
This is an HMD commemoration for Leeds Jewish Housing Association residents. Our resident community includes 4 Holocaust survivors, all of whom will either share a few words, or lend materials for use in the event.
Canalside Heritage Centre's Craft and Natter Group are busy knitting 80 Candles for 80 years. On Wednesday 22nd January 2025 the group will display the candles in the Weir View Room to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025.
This collaborative cra...
For Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, Jewish Museum London are proud to present for the first time, items from the newly formed Leon Greenman Archive, on display at Bradford Reform Synagogue. Split into five distinct periods of British Holocaust surviv...
Author Ainslie Hepburn will give a talk about her latest book 'In the Footsteps of the Holocaust: The Story and Letters of a German Jewish Family' which details her family's experiences. It is the biography of Hermann Hartog (a Jewish teacher in ...
Bury is hosting our annual Holocaust Memorial Event on Thursday 30th January.
The event is invite-only to attend in person but the event will be streamed online at www.bury.gov.uk
The event sees young people from local schools narra...
Listen to the experiences of Iles Beres and her family during the Holocaust, told by her only son, Martyn Hyman.
lse Beres was the only daughter of Rosa and Max Beres. She was born in 1924 in Vienna, where she lived until 1938. But this sto...
A simple ceremony open to everyone
In Queens Park, Loughborough,
Monday 27th January 2025 at 12 noon.
The Mayor of Charnwood will read the Declaration of Commitment.
Then everyone present is invited to place a pebble on the...
The University of York is honored to welcome Dame Stephanie Shirley CH for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Lecture.
In this profound and inspiring talk, Dame Stephanie will share her family’s experience of escaping Nazi persecution, their l...
City of Leicester Annual HMD Commemorative Event 2025.
To be held at 7pm on Monday 27 January 2025.
The programme will include:-
“The Student Experience” involving a panel of students who have visited Auschwitz and will answer qu...