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.
Visit Cloughfern Library this Holocaust Memorial Day and visit the discussion table with cards to help start conversations or remembrance and mental health awareness. Stay a while and explore a range of books on the topic.
A workshop for Keystage 2 children. Csilla Toldy will tell the story of Walter Sekules, a young Jewish boy growing up in a camp for enemy aliens in Kazakhstan. Delivered in conjunction with NI War Memorial Museum.
Series of lessons with year 12 students on steps to genocide - anti racism theme
HMD school noticeboard display
Speaker visiting Harris Academy Rainham to give a talk to year 9 cohort on his families story, Friday 10th January from 8.30 to 9.30am. This was arranged through Generation2Generation.
"Through these pale cold days."
When my wife and myself visited Auschwitz and Birkenau during a bitterly cold February 1997, I came across the photographs of this young woman.
What struck me, as she looked into the camera that day, w...
Our pupils have created an artwork piece for permanent display in school. We have also sent photos home to parents and are marking it on our social media.
This will be shown and spoken through in multiple assemblies throughout the week
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...
PRESS RELEASE 30 January 2025
BROMLEY LIBRARIAN SHARES POIGNANT FAMILY HISTORY FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
This week, the Children’s Team i...
About the video
While the Holocaust is remembered rightly as an act of genocide against Europe’s Jewish population, the Nazis also sent close to 250,000 people with disabilities to their deaths. (Source: Holocaust Memorial Day Trust)
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'In Discussion' Hosted by Raegan Kingett is an event that includes leading academics from the University of Winchester and University of Southampton on the field of Holocaust and Genocide studies through an inter-disciplinary lens. This event will...
Display to reflect Holocaust Memorial Day along side a special display on the Millisle Kibbutz.
Holocaust Memorial Day event including a survivor 's story, school presentation, music, speaker from Syria, the Croydon pledge read by the Mayor.
The annual CSS Holocaust Learning Week will focus on this year’s HMD theme of For a Better Future.
The CSS learning community will engage in a week of activities and lessons designed to provide individuals with the skills to identify the or...
Join us as we walk together across the Colchester campus with our lanterns, crafted by the University of Essex Origami Society. The procession will finish with a gathering on the Silberrad Student Centre Plaza for a moment of reflection.
Generation2Generation speakers will be delivering talks to all of our S3 Citizenship classes.
We also have a whole school assembly on 27/1 to mark HMD and we are inviting the whole school community to light a candle at 8pm on 27/1.
Balancing in Freedom
by Iddo Oberski
(Sat 25 Jan, 8 Feb, 1 Mar and 5 Apr: 2pm)
Iddo: "I'm making this performance piece Svjetlana. It explores human freedom. Would you like to be part of it?"
Svjetlana: "Absolutely yes, ...
To commemorate HMD this year, Shirley Lennon from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust will visit Newry and Mourne Museum to tell the story of Edith Jacobowitz, who escaped from Germany in 1938.
The session will focus on how Edith arrived in No...
The Somerset Holocaust Memorial event will be held in St Johns Church, Park Street Taunton TA1 4DG on Monday 27th January 2025 12.30 till 13.30. This commemoration is organised by a small collection of community representatives, Somerset Interfait...
This event is a Centre for Public History event and also part of the University of Essex's Holocaust Memorial Week event programme.
This workshop-panel explores what existing modes of Holocaust commemoration reveal about the nature of publ...
The Edinburgh Interfaith Association (EIFA) shall coordinate the official City of Edinburgh Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration at Edinburgh City Chambers on 27 Janury 2025. The event is private and shall invlude 80 local high school students as...