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.
Starting at 17.45, this service of Choral Evensong will have a special focus on Holocaust Memorial Day to remember the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. With music sung by the Cathedral Choir (Girl Choristers), the sermon will be gi...
We will be marking the 30th anniversary of the Bosnian genocide and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We will have a short presentation from a Bosnian woman who was a young girl in Bosnia 30 years ago We will hear about the arti...
The students in years 9 -11 (approx 1,500) at Thomas Hardye School are going to create a memorial wall to remember the Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. Each student will write the name of one child on a luggage tag and these will be moun...
Portsmouth guildhall will be lit purple.
Students in every year group at Bennett Memorial School from year 7-year 13 will have a HMD themed assembly in the week 27th to 31st Jan.
There will be a display of our HMD objects that were winners in the arts competitions: 75 memorial fla...
St. Paul's Church, Rusthall is holding a Holocaust Memorial Day service starting at 8pm, finishing by 9.30pm. Along with what promises to be a very moving and reflective service, there will be a display at the back of the church containing informa...
On Thursday 6th February Holmewood House Prep School is hosting a generation2generation event. It will start at 2pm and finish at 4.45pm. We also have Mr. Paul Tweddle speaking. We have other schools, both senior and prep joining us to fill the au...
All pupils get a tealight, and write a word related to hope/a better future/remembrance/commemoration on the base. These are then used to create a giant Star of David, which the whole School will be able to view. This will be accompanied by a sl...
Susanna Kester, a speaker with G2G, is giving a talk to some pupils from Great Walstead School about her family's experiences during the Holocaust
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.
Year 10 will have an hour session with a representative of a Holocaust survivor's family, organised through Generation2Generation having been booked for a number of months.
On the morning of 29th January, G2G speaker Noreen Plen with present, remotely, the story of her parents, Jan Kurz-Bernstein and Lola Waksman and their Polish Jewish families. Both were survivors of the Holocaust.
The presentation will be ...
Kent's Kindertransport Legacy: An Author Talk with Deborah Cadbury and Mike Levy
Join us for a special Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) author event featuring two distinguished authors, Deborah Cadbury and Mike Levy.
Deborah Cadbury is a...
Light up of iconic local landmark-the Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow sculptures to mark the day with a corresponding post on our Inverclyde Council social media channels
An annual memorial service to recognise Holocaust Memorial Day will take place in Radipole Park and Gardens, Radipole Park Drive, Weymouth on Monday 27th January.
The service will begin at 10:30am at the Holocaust memorial tree, planted nea...
In this talk, Professor Adam Jones will introduce his work on photographing sites and evidence of genocide and discuss the wider context of how photography has been so crucial in making society
aware of instances of mass violence. There are ...
The Exeter HMD 2025 Opening Ceremony will be held at Exeter Cathedral at 10am on Monday 27th January 2025. Open to the public and local schools, dignitaries and representatives from diverse faith and belief groups will light candles in commemorati...
Join us in commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day by exploring a selection of books that reflect on the Holocaust
The church building will be floodlit in purple from 8pm.
Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place on the University of Sussex campus on Wednesday 5 February 2025, from 2pm to 5.15pm.
The programme will be split into two sessions:
SESSION 1:
Testimony from our guest sp...