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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.

Private

G2G - Anita Peleg - HMD 2025

Thursday, 9 January 2025,

Anita Peleg shared the story of her mother Naomi Blake a survivor from Hungary/Ukraine.

Public

St Paul's Church Chippenham - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

A simple quiet reflection for anyone to join in between 17:00 and 21:00

Silences
Lighting 80 candles
Some recorded memories
Maps of Holocaust and genocide locations
Reading materials
Mindful drawings
Pray...

Public

Gwent Police - Light the Darkness - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

The Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner and the Chief Constable will be lighting Gwent Police HQ in purple on 27 January at 8.00pm to mark the Holocaust Memorial Day.

Public

JW3 - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Friday, 24 January 2025,

Friday 24 January, 10:30 - 12:00
JW3
In person and Online

Join us for our annual Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony centred around the theme, “Create a Better Future”, where we come together to remember the Holocaust and subsequent...

Jewish Museum London - HMD Secondary Schools Broadcast - HMD 2025 Public

Jewish Museum London - HMD Secondary Schools Broadcast - HMD 2025

Thursday, 23 January 2025,

Please join the Jewish Museum London on the 23rd of January 2025 for our free HMD Schools Broadcast. We will explore this year’s theme For a Better Future by looking at objects from our Museum’s collection. This broadcast will also include a live ...

Release of musical work 'The Liberation of Auschwitz' - HMD 2025

Release of musical work 'The Liberation of Auschwitz' - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

Release of music in partnership with Help Musicians to mark the 80th anniversairy of the liberation of the camp, 'The Liberation of Auschwitz' for strings, piano and organ.

Now on Spotify and all major streaming platforms.

UCL - Voicing the Destruction of European Jewry - HMD 2025 Public

UCL - Voicing the Destruction of European Jewry - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 29 January 2025,

Voicing the Destruction of European Jewry: Yiddish and the Holocaust

29 January 2025
1300-1400

Yiddish was the language spoken by approximately 5 million of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Until the mid-20th cent...

Private

UK Jewish Film - HMD screening for schools in Hackney - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 22 January 2025,

Taking place at the Hackney Picturehouse from 10am, and in partnership with Hackney Council we will be screening three Holocaust themed short film after which there will be a Q&A with Holocaust education experts. Focusing on this year’s HMD t...

Private

St George's School, Ascot - A whole-school HMD Assembly - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

One of the Deputy Heads at the School, Mr Wright, after an introduction explaining HMD, briefly recounted the events highlighted in the book "Ordinary Men" by Christopher R. Browning. The assembly concluded with an emphasis on the future dangers o...

Church of Scientology London - Talk by John Wood - HMD 2025 Public

Church of Scientology London - Talk by John Wood - HMD 2025

Tuesday, 28 January 2025,

John Wood will present his articulate audio- visual presentation called 'The Holocaust: the Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp. John Wood is the son of Belsen liberator, Major Leonard Berney. This is brilliant not be missed account wit...