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.
Learning from genocide for a better future. This ceremony will be attended by civic leaders of Stafford Borough. It marks the designation of Saint Mary's, Stafford as a sanctuary church, and the main speaker will reflect this.
Vivienne Cato came to our school today to speak to the Year 6 children on the anniversary of the Holocaust (Holocaust Memorial Day) about her Mother's experience of the Holocaust. Vivienne provided a detailed powerpoint with video clips and there ...
Borough of Charnwood
Annual Commemoration of Victims of Genocide in every time and every place. organised by Loughborough Council of Faiths.
This always takes place on 27th January and normally everyone present is invited to place a pe...
On 27 January we will be joining people across the nation lighting the Tower in the central quad at school in purple to remember the victims and to stand against prejudice and hatred today.
During lunchtime, we will be creating pebbles with remembrance images or messages. The pebbles will be placed in front of the Tower as a remembrance, honouring the victims of the genocide and their memory.
We will start the day with a school assembly to share information about the Holocaust and victims of the Holocaust. We will be discussing prejudice, discrimination and hatred.
Skimstone Arts presents
Turning to Face The Sun
Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library, 33 New Bridge Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX
Thursday 30th January 2025.
Performances at 12 pm and 1.30 pm
As ...
Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg will give a talk to Years 9, 10, and 11 pupils at Burton Borough School in Newport, Telford on the 21st January 2025 at 2.10pm.
6th form history pupils from nearby Newport Girls School and Adams Grammar Sc...
As part of Newcastle City Council's Holocaust Memorial Day commemorative programme, Professor Ian Biddle tells the story of how we came to understand the term “Holocaust” and where it comes from. Who first coined the term? When did it become a pro...
When the Holocaust became the Holocaust: changing imaginations of genocide in the West
Bewick Hall, City Library
Thursday 30 January, 5.15pm
FREE, but booking essential at Newcastle Libraries Eventbrite
Professor Ian Bidd...
A Talk by
Smajo Bešo OBE, Founder & Chair, NE Board of the Bosnian Genocide Educational Trust
Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library (on-line livestream available)
Wednesday 29 January 2025, 2.00pm
Tickets for in-pers...
A story-sharing and performance event, in which light, audio recordings and live performances, inspired by Ukrainian, Jewish, Palestinian, Kurdistan Iraqi and other war testimonies, help us explore what it means to look for hope and resolution, an...
A commemoration to honour all Holocaust victims, with a special focus on the Roma community. This reflective event will provide time and space to remember those who suffered and to renew our commitment to building a future free from prejudice and ...
An event to commemorate and celebrate the role played in the Relief of Belsen in the spring of 1945 by one of our local regiments - the 113 LAA RA TA, affiliated to the Durham Light Infantry - when men from the Northeast helped Jewish, Roma and ot...
Artists
Violin: Alexandra Soumm, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Dana Zemtsov
Cello: Bartholomew LaFollette
Piano: Katya Apekisheva, Anthony Hewitt
Oboe: Julian Scott
Theremi...
Composers forced into Exile in the United States
Artists
Violin: Jack Liebeck, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Benjamin Roskams
Cello: Adrian Brendel
Tenor: Alex Aldren
Clarinet: Jessica Lee
Piano: D...
A unique installation created by a member of the Jewish community, representing the mass transportation of the Pardubice Jews to Terezin and onward to Auschwitz.
A simple ceremony open to everyone
In Queens Park, Loughborough,
Monday 27th January 2025 at 12 noon.
The Mayor of Charnwood will read the Declaration of Commitment.
Then everyone present is invited to place a pebble on the...
A Commemorative event open to the public, held in one of our Diocesan schools, St Mary's Catholic School, Benton Newcastle upon Tyne. The event was attended by our Bishop Stephen Wright and the Rabbi Aaron Lipse...
Service for the community being held at St. Luke's Church, Church Street, Cannock at 10 a.m.