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.
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...
Join us at Gellionnen Unitarian Chapel, Pontardawe, for our Holocaust Memorial Service, led by our minister Rev. Rory Castle Jones. The theme of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day is 'For a better future'. An hour of community, spirituality and re...
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.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27th, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, my academic poster project was shared with students at the University of Birmingham in the library and the learning and teaching building. The poster directly connected to the day...
Our guest speaker, Melanie Martin, will share the story of Tootje (Cato) Granaat (1926 – 2020) on Tuesday, 28th January 2025, from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions towards the end of the session.
GoodVibes is YMCA Swansea's LGBTQ+ youth group that meets in Person at YMCA Swansea every Tuesday 6-8pm. This HMD we will be paying respect by creating and lighting candles and in on honor of those LGBTQ persons who were persecuted and those who s...
On 27th January 2025, between 3.30 and 4.30pm, Bernice Krantz will be visiting University College Birmingham to deliver a talk in honour of Holocaust Memorial Day. Bernice will be covering the story of a friend, Toby Biber, who survived the Holoca...
We have a poster designed with quote from the Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and Norma Glass, a member of the Welsh Jewish community, which will be uploaded on our social media platforms on the 27th of January 2025.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
Banqueting Suite, Council House
Victoria Square
B1 1BB
Door Open - 10:30
Ceremony starts -11:00 - 12:30
Candle lighting, poetry, music and speakers
In advance of Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 author Nicholas Milton will be talking about his new book, The Birdman of Auschwitz, alongside Ruth Jacobs, Jewish West Midlands community leader, and Holocaust Survivor, Mindu Hornick MBE. The talk will...
Sgwrs Astudiaethau Lleol
Anne Cardenas - "Oral Histories of the Kindertransport in Wales"
25 Ionawr
2pm yn yr Ystafell Ddarganfod, llawr cyntaf Llyfrgell Ganolog Abertawe.
Local Studies Talk
-Anne Cardenas - "Ora...
Postscript is a concert to be hosted in honour of Holocaust Memorial Day in 2025, combining music and testimony of Holocaust survivors, victims and those affected. In holding a space for education and memorial, we aim to highlight the importance o...
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.
A short Service will take place at Bromsgrove District Council, Parkside Suite, Parkside, Market Street, Bromsgrove B61 8DA at 11 am.
The Service had originally been planned to take place in Sanders Park. PLEASE NOTE: due to the weather f...
As a tribute in commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day, the public are invited to join Members of Tredegar Town Council to light a candle to mark this historic international event.
Please wear something purple.
Guests are welcome to...
27.1.24 10am - 2pm at Uffculme Conference Centre, Moseley, Birmingham
Delivered by Spiritual Care Team at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Public event - main audience is NHS staff members, visitors and patien...
This event will have reflections from the Jewish Societies (JSOCs) of both Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and University of Nottingham (UoN), we will have a number of keynote speakers from Jewish Community, UoN and NTU. There will also be cand...
We will light up the farm shop from 8pm - 8am in memory of our dear family friend the late Stanislaw Pierozynski. Stan was initially sent to Drancy but along with his Father, was transfered and then survived internment in Sachsenhausen. His father...
Exclusive screening of 'THE COMMANDANT'S SHADOW' + live in-person interview with one of the stars of the film, Maya Lasker-Wallfisch.
In this critically acclaimed documentary feature, from Warner Brothers and HBO Max, the legendary 99-year ...