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.
Our Unitarian chaplain, Rev Dr Claire MacDonald, along with Wendy Fidler MBE will lead an event for Holocaust Memorial Day. The Harris Manchester College choir will sing Mark Miller's I Believe.
The Choir of Worcester College sing their regular service of Choral Evensong. The Rt Revd Steven Croft, Bishop of Oxford, will preach with Holocaust Memorial Day as his focus. The service will feature psalms of lament and hope, and an anthem by No...
HMD Lecture by Susanna Rosenberg (booked through Generation2Generation)
We are having a speaker provided by Generation2Generation provided who will give a presentation and talk, followed by Q&A. This will be for both staff and prisoners. Resources and films will also be available throughout the month.
Join us for an evening of reflection to remember victims of the Holocaust on Wednesday 22 January 2025.
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2025 is For a better Future. There are many things we can all do to create a better future. W...
Tuesday 28 January 8pm
Telling the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton.
Sir Nicholas Winton was a young London broker who, along with Trevor Chadwick and Doreen Warriner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, ...
Holocaust Memorial Day: Nicky's Family
Dir: Matej Minac 2011 | 96 mins
The remarkable true story of Maidenhead resident Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued over 600 Jewish Czech and Slovak children at the outbreak of World War II.
<...Voices of the Holocaust education programme on the 24th January 2025 which includes and assembly to our Year 9 and School Council. As well as a production/play to the group. This is specifically aimed at Year 9 - who study the Holocaust at part o...
Yr13 Enrichment session 9-10am - Holocaust survivor speaker. 150 students
Yr12 Enrichment session 10-11am - Holocaust survivor speaker. 156 students
A ceremony with music, readings and testimony, a period of silence during which 80 candles were laid to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. The vent closed with all sharing the Stockholm Statement of Commitment.
It woul...
The annual Holocaust Memorial Day event has been moved to the Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Saxon Gate, Milton Keynes MK9 2ES in view of the weather forecast for Sunday.
The Sunday 26 January 2025 event will still start at 3 p.m. as adve...
One of the Deputy Heads at the School, Mr Wright, after an introduction explaining HMD, briefly recounted the events highlighted in the book "Ordinary Men" by Christopher R. Browning. The assembly concluded with an emphasis on the future dangers o...
There will be a 40-minute ceremony in the early evening with readings, music, candles, tea and coffee.
We will be lighting up The Forum building in Hemel Hempstead in purple to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January.
Online, we will be encouraging people to take part by lighting candles and place them safely in their windows at 8...
On the 12th February, Year 9 received a talk from Maralyn Turgel from the Generation2Generation organisation who spoke about her father’s story of survival in the Holocaust. In 1942, Marilyn’s father, Sam Gardner was selected to work as slave labo...
Yiewsley Library holds a conversation cafe during term times, this is for residents who wish to improve their English conversation skills , This is attended mainly by refugees and asylum seekers as we are based near to Heathrow and a lot of the a...
In this lecture, Professor Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading) will focus on Frantz Fanon’s influence and practice as a psychiatrist, his understanding of racism and antisemitism, and his anti-colonialism. Fanon refused to separate his revoluti...
Our school community were privileged to have Emily visit us and share her mother’s amazing story with us. We learned of the horrific situation people faced during this time but equally of the bravery of others, without who survival would have been...
We will be reflecting and having an Act of Remembrance for Holocaust Memorial Day during our Communion Service at 10:30am on Sunday 26th January 2025
A Holocaust Memorial Day quiet time will be held in the Chapel from 9am to 12pm on Monday 27th. People are invited to join us, light a candle, or put an LED candle on the Tree of Lights and say prayers.