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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.

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Madeley Academy - Survivor speaker - HMD 2025

Thursday, 30 January 2025,

30.01.25 8.20-11.20am

Lesley Urbach- Holocaust Guest Speaker
Arrive 8:20- 8:30am- Meet Ellie in school reception
8:30-8:50am- Breakfast in school canteen with Ellie
8:50am- Go to theatre to set up first talk
9-10am- ...

Combined Military Services Museum - Social media post - HMD 2025

Combined Military Services Museum - Social media post - HMD 2025

Saturday, 25 January 2025,

At the museum we created an information display, shared information on social media, wrote an article for the local paper, and I talked on BBC Essex and Caroline Coastal Radio shows over the weekend and on 27th January. We refreshed our permanent...

Canalside Heritage Centre - Threads of Light - HMD 2025 Public

Canalside Heritage Centre - Threads of Light - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 22 January 2025,

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...

Private

Webinar on the testimony of Eva Clarke - Ebbw Vale - HMD 2025

Friday, 24 January 2025,

In the lead up to HMD 2025, on the 24th January 2025, we are inviting pupils across West Gwent (Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly and Torfaen) to attend a live webinar to hear the testimony of Eva Clarke. Eva Clarke, who has a personal connection to the a...

Public

BGCBC Lighting up The General Offices - Ebbw Vale - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

On the evening of the 27th January 2025, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council will light up The General Office council building on Steel Works Road. This is in acknowledgement of Holocaust Memorial Day 2025.

Public

New Line Learning Academy - Talk - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

The daughter of a Holocaust survivor is coming to talk our year 9s about her father's plight in the concentration camps and his life thereafter.

Tredegar Town Council – Light the Darkness vigil - HMD 2025 Public

Tredegar Town Council – Light the Darkness vigil - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

As a tribute in commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day, the public are invited to join Members of Tredegar Town Council to light a candle to mark this historic international event.

Please wear something purple.

Guests are welcome to...

Public

Telford and Wrekin Council - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

An event to honour the survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides, and remember those that were murdered.
It will take place on the 27th January at AFC Telford United Stadium at
10.00am for a 10.30 start, and end at about 11.30am.<...

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Quilt Unveiling - HMD 2025 Private

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Quilt Unveiling - HMD 2025

Saturday, 18 January 2025,

Calling all 80 Candles Quilt Participants! Join Community Arts Practitioner Laura Burrill for a private unveiling of our completed work!

A chance to share research, meet fellow participants, see the finished quilt before it goes on display ...

Multi-Faith Centre Derby - Ceremony - HMD 2025 Public

Multi-Faith Centre Derby - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

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...

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Memorial Quilt Workshop - HMD 2025 Public

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Memorial Quilt Workshop - HMD 2025

Friday, 18 October 2024,

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...

Public

Southend City Council - Ceremony with Survivor Talk- HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

Southend City Council will be holding a service of commemoration on Sunday 26th January, 3pm at the Civic Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 6ER. We will welcome holocaust survivor Paul Sved, BEM, to give an address at this service, which will also inc...