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.
Voicing the Destruction of European Jewry: Yiddish and the Holocaust
29 January 2025
1300-1400
Yiddish was the language spoken by approximately 5 million of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Until the mid-20th cent...
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, ...
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...
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.
Royal Holloway University of London Multifaith Chaplaincy will be leading a Holocaust Memorial Day Peace Vigil at 6pm on Monday 27 January 2025 in the University Chapel.
We will come together to remember, honour, and stand united for peace. ...
A Holocaust survivor is coming in to speak to our A Level historians about her family's experience of the Holocaust.
27.1.2025 at 5pm to 7pm
Father's House will be hosting a Holocaust Memorial Service on Monday 27th January 2025 at 6.30pm - 8pm
What have we not learnt from The Holocaust?
The rise in antisemitism today is a clear sign that we have not learned from history ...
Listen to the experiences of Iles Beres and her family during the Holocaust, told by her only son, Martyn Hyman.
lse Beres was the only daughter of Rosa and Max Beres. She was born in 1924 in Vienna, where she lived until 1938. But this sto...
Sudan has been at war for longer than it has been at peace. The Sudanese people have been plagued by genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes since independence in 1956.
In 2003, a civil war began in the region between the sedent...
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...
Author Ainslie Hepburn will give a talk about her latest book 'In the Footsteps of the Holocaust: The Story and Letters of a German Jewish Family' which details her family's experiences. It is the biography of Hermann Hartog (a Jewish teacher in ...
13th March, 3.45-4.45pm - History Society talk to pupils aged 14-18 by Francis Morton, organised via Generation2Generation
The Vicious Circle explores the recurring delusion behind the anti-Jewish pogrom. A delusion recycled by false prophets who promise that slaughtering Jews brings the world freedom.
It is a delusion that has inspired pogroms from ancient t...
A pre-recorded ceremony will be shared at 10am on 27 January 2025 with contributions by Hackney residents and community leaders, streamed via Hackney's youtube channel.
Taking place at the Hackney Picturehouse from 10am, and in partnership with Hackney Council we will be screening three Holocaust themed short film after which there will be a Q&A with Holocaust education experts. Focusing on this year’s HMD t...
Further information will be shared in due course
We had a guest speaker, Peter Kammerling, from G2G come to our school and tell the story of his parents, both of whom escaped Nazi persecution via the Kindertransport to Britain.
He presented this in an extended assembly (1 hour) to 240 Year...
Sermon presentation during worship service part of the presentation is a statement from the UK Adventist Jewish Relations Director.
John Wood will present his articulate audio- visual presentation called 'The Holocaust: the Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp. John Wood is the son of Belsen liberator, Major Leonard Berney. This is brilliant not be missed account wit...