Velehrad London - Reflections on the Shoa in Bohemia and Moravia - HMD 2025
Monday, 27 January 2025,27.1.2025 at 5pm to 7pm
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.
27.1.2025 at 5pm to 7pm
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.
This year's theme is "for a better future".
Our event in Ha...
13th March, 3.45-4.45pm - History Society talk to pupils aged 14-18 by Francis Morton, organised via Generation2Generation
Talk from a descendent of Holocaust survivors to two year 9 groups.
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.
Thursday 6 Feb - All day (for over 200 Year 9 students)
Begins with Second Generation speaker (Gloria Silver) talking about her father's experience as a survivor.
Followed by a carousel of lessons on the topic of the Holocaust from RE,...
Our Community library welcomes Jeanette Marx from Generation2Generation to talk about her mother's experiences in Poland and elsewhere during the Holocaust.
Provided on Zoom at 19:30 Wednesday 29th January.
Our workshops will take place on 3 Feb, 4 Feb, 5 Feb, 10 Feb, 11 Feb and 12 Feb - two workshops each day (9:30am to 12 noon and 1pm to 3:30pm) at Finchley Reform Synagogue. They are free 2.5 hour workshops for year 9 students at local secondary s...
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...
On Jan 16th at 3.00-4.30pm a visitor from Generation 2 Generation will be speaking with a group of our students about their family story of Holocaust experience.
In addition, during the week of January 27 -31 all of our approximately 1500 st...
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 ...
Friday 24 January, 10:30 - 12:00
JW3
In person and Online
Join us for our annual Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony centred around the theme, “Create a Better Future”, where we come together to remember the Holocaust and subsequent...
Free screening of the film Phoenix by Christian Petzold.
The screening will start at 5:30pm and last about 1 hour and 30 minutes, however there will be time for a chat afterwards and some refreshments.
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...
Please join the Jewish Museum London on the 23rd of January 2025 for our free HMD Schools Broadcast. We will explore this year’s theme For a Better Future by looking at objects from our Museum’s collection. This broadcast will also include a live ...
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...
Pascal Theatre Company returns to Burgh House in January for Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 with a staged reading of a play addressing issues of adultery, guilt and survival, contrasting a conventional marriage and domesticity against free love.
...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...
Martin Stern, a survivor who is a member of Muswell Hill shul, spoke to 300 students from Fortismere School. W invite Y9 to our shul each year and provide a talk for them,
Join us online only on Wednesday 22 January 2025 from 7-8pm, London, UK time via MS Teams for: A Holocaust Memorial Day presentation by Dalya Wittenberg from Generation 2 Generation (G2G).
Dalya tells her grandmother’s Cilla Rotblat.