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.
The HMD Service in Bolton will be open to public with attendance from school children, civic, faith and community leaders to mark the 80th anniversary of liberation. Mayor of Bolton , Leader of the Council and others will make speeches which will ...
Evensong on the Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday 26th January at 4pm in Halifax Minster, led by The Revd Canon Hilary Barber and Rabbi Douglas Chairing. This is the formal commemoration for the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale.
Rochdale Borough Annual Holocaust Memorial Commemoration
A re-dedication of the Holocaust Memorial Stone will take place in the Memorial Gardens. This will be followed by an Act of Commemoration in Rochdale Town Hall. This year we will Comme...
Bury is hosting our annual Holocaust Memorial Event on Thursday 30th January.
The event is invite-only to attend in person but the event will be streamed online at www.bury.gov.uk
The event sees young people from local schools narra...
Mon 27 January 2025, 1.15pm
Leeds Cathedral, Cathedral Chambers, Great George Street, Leeds, LS2 8BE
Darius Battiwalla
Leeds City Organist
Holocaust Memorial Day
Felix Mendelssohn - Sonata No 1 in F minor
Fel...
Author Ainslie Hepburn will give a talk about her latest book 'In the Footsteps of the Holocaust: The Story and Letters of a German Jewish Family' which details her family's experiences. It is the biography of Hermann Hartog (a Jewish teacher in ...
Join the Lord Mayor for an afternoon of commemoration
The theme for this year’s event is ‘For a Better Future’
Sunday 26 January, 2pm
City Varieties Music Hall Swan Street, Leeds LS1 6LW
Free and open to all
The event...
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Anita Peleg, from Generation to Generation, delivered a compelling and poignant presentation to CPSD about her mother, Naomi Blake, a sculptor and Auschwitz survivor.
At the conclusion of the presentation, we expr...
We are marking the 80 yrs since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau & the 30 yrs since the genocide of Bosnia by holding two one hour ceremonies in Wigan & Leigh Town Hall. We will be sharing our 80 Candleholder as well as our Memorial fo...
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.
All year groups will have an assembly on Holocaust Memorial Day over the course of the week.
Monday 27th January commenced with a private wreath-laying at St John’s Gardens. Those in attendance included Lord Mayor, Cllr Richard Kemp, Rabbi Natan Fagleman and the president of the Merseyside Jewish Representative Council, Barry Levene. They...
Candle lighting and short service
eLearning available for staff
Liverpool landmarks lit up purple.
Song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom follows the journey of Liverpool lawyer and MP David Maxwell Fyfe from Nuremberg, where he was a leading prosecutor at the war crimes trials, to Strasbourg where he was the British drafter of the European C...
Oldham will be commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday 27 January 2025 at:
The Radclyffe School, Hunt Lane, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 0LS. 9:00am – 10:30am.
The event has been organised in partnership with Oldham Council, The Radc...
Kilkeel Library invites you to come and view our 'Moments of Reflection' book display to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. A collection of authentic stories and memories to remember this moment in time together.
Join us at Holocaust Centre North for our Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration, from 6pm, as we remember the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust and the victims of subsequent genocides across the world.
We are honoured to ...
After a lesson using the resources from the HMDT, Year 5/6 at St Lewis' reflected on the lessons that we can learn from the experiences of the victims of discrimination and stereotyping. The children were astonished at the cruelty shown during the...
The University of York is honored to welcome Dame Stephanie Shirley CH for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Lecture.
In this profound and inspiring talk, Dame Stephanie will share her family’s experience of escaping Nazi persecution, their l...
This year is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau from the Nazis and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.
The HMD Trust’s theme for this year is “For a better future” - we will be asking people to think ab...