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.
Bury St Edmunds annual ceremony to mark Holocaust Memorial Day at 10.30 am in the Peace Garden of the Abbey Gardens. A ceremony of words and music with students, local Councillors, clergy and members of different religious traditions leading the ...
Assembly and tutor group activities. Testimony from 4 of our students who visited Auschwitz this year as part of the 'Lessons from Auschwitz Project'. These students took up the responsibility to become witnesses for the future 80 years. We then ...
This the St Albans City and District Council Civic event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day; it is being hosted by St Albans Masorti Synagogue. It comprises an evening of testimony from 2nd generation survivors, but also includes the testimony of Kitt...
Bernice Krantz talking about Toby Biber's story for National Holocaust week as part of the Engaging Minds Series for the sixth form. It is a one hour slot, divided between a presentation and talk then the students get to ask questions and they en...
Cumbria's Museum of Military Life, located within the historic walls of Carlisle Castle, is proud to support the 'Light the Darkness' movement for Holocaust Memorial Day. In collaboration with Rocket Productions, a fellow site tenant, we will illu...
The Holocaust Memorial evening is an invitation for reflection, listening to music performed by students of the school; meeting survivors (such as Diana Cook from Bungay speaking about her mother Margot Hodge as well as Roxanne de Bastion on her f...
Raising of Holocaust Flag and blessing by Rabbi.
Personal Stories,
School readings.
Exhibition
Prayers and blessings
hosted by young people
10:15 -noon
The Bandstand and Canolfan Alun R. Edwards in Aberystwyth will be lit up in purple.
Memorial service for Year 10 (210 students) who have studied the Holocaust in the last year. Including readings and candle lighting led by the girls.
Also assemblies for all year groups led by our head teacher(1400 students)
We have activities all week to recognise HMD.
Each each group gets an assembly and form time resources.
Year 12s have the person talk with the Holocaust Second Generation survivor.
We also have 6 students accepted onto the Lesson...
Assemblies all week for all our students.
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...
This year in conjunction with Remembering Srebrenica and to mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide at Srebrenica, we are pleased to welcome Sheila Osmanovic to share her story with us. Shelia grew up in Sarajevo, aware of conflict elsewhere, ...
Commemoration service Monday 27 January 2025,
Start 2pm
Finish 2.30pm
Sawbridgeworth Town Council will mark Holocaust Memorial Day with a candle lighting and remarks by our local Rabbi. The event will start at 18:50 on the 27th of January, before the Full Council meeting at 19:00.
The Mayor of Hertsmere will be holding a Holocaust Memorial Day Event at Hertswood Academy, Borehamwood on 27th January starting at 6pm.
Students are reading the book Once. Many of them do not have much prior knowledge of the events of the Holocaust. Students are year 7. Students will develop a deeper understanding of the history and a compassionate appreciation of the Jewish comm...
Holocaust Memorial Day was observed on Monday 27 January at the Spotlight and Lowewood Museum Gardens in Hoddesdon.
Ahead of the afternoon memorial service, Broxbourne Council held a flag raising ceremony at Bishops’ College in the morning,...
Ceredigion County Council buildings were lit Purple to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. Along with two separate social messages across all our channels.
The Centre for the Movement of People at Aberystwyth University is pleased to host a free programme and exhibition provided by The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London to commemorate H...