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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.

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Hammersmith and Fulham Council - Talk - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

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...

Private

East Barnet School - Talk and educational workshops - HMD 2025

Thursday, 6 February 2025,

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,...

Garden Suburb Community Library - G2G speaker - HMD 2025 Public

Garden Suburb Community Library - G2G speaker - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 29 January 2025,

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.

Private

Finchley Reform Synagogue - Educational Workshop - HMD 2025

Monday, 3 February 2025,

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...

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Quilt Unveiling - HMD 2025 Private

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Quilt Unveiling - HMD 2025

Saturday, 18 January 2025,

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 ...

Public

JW3 - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Friday, 24 January 2025,

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...

Multi-Faith Centre Derby - Ceremony - HMD 2025 Public

Multi-Faith Centre Derby - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

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...

Jewish Museum London - HMD Secondary Schools Broadcast - HMD 2025 Public

Jewish Museum London - HMD Secondary Schools Broadcast - HMD 2025

Thursday, 23 January 2025,

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 ...

Private

Bishop Luffa School - (Tea)Lights in the Darkness - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

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...

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Memorial Quilt Workshop - HMD 2025 Public

Every Stitch A Story - 80 Candles Memorial Quilt Workshop - HMD 2025

Friday, 18 October 2024,

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...

Barnet Libraries - Presentation by Dalya Wittenberg - HMD 2025 Public

Barnet Libraries - Presentation by Dalya Wittenberg - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 22 January 2025,

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.