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.
Saul Ausländer is a member of the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners forced to assist in the machinery of the Nazi concentration camps. While at work, he discovers the body of a boy he recognises as his son. As the Sonderkommando plan a rebellio...
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...
Residents across Rotherham are being invited to remember and pay tribute to those who have lost their lives in genocides across the world at the Holocaust Memorial Day event.
The event will include speeches from a variety of guests includin...
Schoolchildren at Ludlow Primary School will plant a memorial cherry tree on the morning of Holocaust Memorial Day, Monday 27th January. This will involve South Shropshire Interfaith Forum, the school itself, and the local Shropshire Council counc...
This will be a formal event starting at 4.45pm in the main Market Square in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The event is hosted and co-ordinated by Cllr Ed Fordham.
There is a facebook event: Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
There will be readin...
Service for the community being held at St. Luke's Church, Church Street, Cannock at 10 a.m.
The City of Doncaster annual HMD Ceremony will take place at the Mansion House on High Street in the City of Doncaster.
The ceremony will start at 0930hrs for approximately 2 hours.
The service will include a blessing, readings and p...
A church service with prayers, reflections and presentation of this year's theme.
We will vow "Never Again"
We will pray and reflect on 80 years since the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
We will consider our own response to evi...
Monday 27th January 7.00 pm - Church Service
A small display to raise awareness about the holocaust and other events. The circumstances that lead to holocaust and the need for greater awareness of our differing backgrounds.
We are going to get the Scouts to look at the booklets, watch a couple of the online videos to explain what the Memorial Day is about.
We will give them time to discuss what they know and reflect on what they know and have seen or read about...
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 ...
Cubs meeting
We meet every Monday at our scout hq.
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...
Highland Friends of Israel have a display using the HMDT material in Inverness library, Scotland from 21st January to 4th February. It is opposite the desks and near on the way out.
Also 27th Jan on Inverness High St near Spec Savers IV1 1...
Davis Wirth - son of two Auschwitz survivors gave a talk to 67 students and staff at West Nottinghamshire College in Mansfield about the Holocaust in Hungary.
We held an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau which included talks, from local activists presentation from students at Coleg Sir Gar and the viewing of a recording made by one of our organisers of an interv...
Join The Welfare Ystradgynlais and the Josef Herman Art Foundation Cymru for a moving and thought-provoking event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), observed annually on 27th January to honour the memory of the millions who suffered under Nazi ...