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.
80 years on from the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, On HMD 27-01-2025 Fishburn Parish Council will light The Queen Elizabeth II Beacon of Hope at 7pm for 20/30 minutes with a short reading, Front Street, Fishburn TS21 4AA
We will be encouraging out supporters to share Holocaust Memorial social media posts from our various platforms with the suggested hashtags. We also have a PowerPoint resource which can be shared within church on a Sunday close to Holocaust Memori...
Church service of prayer and reflection to focus mainly on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the national theme "For a Better Future".
Music will be provided by Sheila Morbey (violin), Geoff Gordon (piano), an...
Presented as part of United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
27th January 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Voices From is a creative explorati...
Westmorland and Furness Council will mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) by lighting up buildings and flying the HMD flag.
On Monday 27 January, Barrow and Kendal Town Halls will be illuminated in purple, while the HMD flag will f...
In 2023 members of the community planted a tree to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, we will gather at the tree and light a candle in rememberence of those who lost their lives in the Holocaust and subsequent genocides.
Holocaust Workshop at Madeley School, Staffordshire.
2hrs long, produced by Sue Moffat during her Holocaust Fellowship with Imperial War Museum, London.
6pm - Tolling tenor bell half-muffled, i.e. alternately muffled (in memory) and open/loud and bright (prayer for better future).
General public can hear the bell being tolled across the local community, especially closer to the church.
...The Anne Frank Trust, Cumbria and Chetwynde Secondary school, Barrow are hosting a commemoration assembly on Monday 27th January - 2:30pm-3:30pm. This will be led by Anne Frank student ambassadors and other students from the Secondary and Primary ...
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 ...
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...
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...
A Regional Ambassador for the Holocaust Educational Trust is leading a discussion about the Holocaust with attendees, including how the Holocaust is represented and it's contemporary relevance. We will then write messages of hope for the future an...
This event will have reflections from the Jewish Societies (JSOCs) of both Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and University of Nottingham (UoN), we will have a number of keynote speakers from Jewish Community, UoN and NTU. There will also be cand...
Short service in the Memorial Garden when the flag was lowered and a few words were said in memory of those lost to the Holocaust.
Father's House will be hosting a Holocaust Memorial Service on Monday 27th January 2025 at 6.30pm - 8pm
What have we not learnt from The Holocaust?
The rise in antisemitism today is a clear sign that we have not learned from history ...
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...
In November 2024 Space 4 participants worked alongside artist Mary Watson to create a candleholder inspired by the life story of Henry Wuga MBE who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, was evacuated then interned. He settled and married in...
I lit my candle and put it in the window where it shone a little light into a dark garden and a dark rural landscape. All I could do was to shine a little light into the darkness - it was something but not much!
The Worshipful the Mayor of the Borough of North East Lincolnshire Council along with his Mayoral Chaplain, Father Andrew Cole will be holding a short Commemoration Event followed by the lighting of a candle on the main stairs in Grimsby Town Hall...