G2G - Anita Peleg - HMD 2025
Thursday, 9 January 2025,Anita Peleg shared the story of her mother Naomi Blake a survivor from Hungary/Ukraine.
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Anita Peleg shared the story of her mother Naomi Blake a survivor from Hungary/Ukraine.
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...
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.
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...
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 ...
Pascal Theatre Company returns to Burgh House in January for Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 with a staged reading of a play addressing issues of adultery, guilt and survival, contrasting a conventional marriage and domesticity against free love.
...Calum Isaacs gave a talk to prisoners about the survivor experience of his grandmother, Mirjam Finkelstein.
A talk given to prisoners by Ella Garai-Ebner, about her grandfather's survivor experience.
Jewish Museum London is excited to announce a new display in collaboration with Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust taking place at Swiss Cottage Library from 22th January until 22nd February 2025. The display will include a number...
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.
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...
A pre-recorded ceremony will be shared at 10am on 27 January 2025 with contributions by Hackney residents and community leaders, streamed via Hackney's youtube channel.
Free screening of the film Phoenix by Christian Petzold.
The screening will start at 5:30pm and last about 1 hour and 30 minutes, however there will be time for a chat afterwards and some refreshments.
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...
The community comes together to remember the Holocaust through music, reading and prayer. The memorial service is led by Rev. Sue and readings, lighting of the 5 candles and choir provided by the children of Caerleon Comprehensive School.
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Further information will be shared in due course
13th March, 3.45-4.45pm - History Society talk to pupils aged 14-18 by Francis Morton, organised via Generation2Generation
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...
Sermon presentation during worship service part of the presentation is a statement from the UK Adventist Jewish Relations Director.
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...