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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.

Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue - Survivor speaker - HMD 2025 Private

Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue - Survivor speaker - HMD 2025

Monday, 13 January 2025,

Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue (EHRS) hosted a Holocaust Memorial Day event for over 200 Year 9 students from Canons High Secondary School. This required extensive planning from both the school and EHRS, including the participation of over 30...

Gesher School - Crafted candle display - HMD 2025 Public

Gesher School - Crafted candle display - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

Our Primary school had a small assembly about what HMD is about and made different things to remember how we can remember what happened (and is happening), be better people and be strong together.
The Lower years created hands with ideas on...

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,...

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.

Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh UK - Online Survivor Talk - HMD 2025 Private

Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh UK - Online Survivor Talk - HMD 2025

Sunday, 19 January 2025,

Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh UK Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration will be an online event on 19th January 2025 at 3pm.

The Holocaust was one of the darkest chapter in human history.

With the emphasis on ‘Light the darkness ‘ theme...

Aneurin Leisure Trust, Brynmawr Library - Coffee Morning - HMD 2025 Public

Aneurin Leisure Trust, Brynmawr Library - Coffee Morning - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

On the 27th of January, Brynmawr Library will be hosting a coffee morning which will be available to the public. Free tea/coffee will be available and it will be an opportunity for locals to meet and have a discussion about what HMD means to them....

Hillingdon Libraries - The Story of Eric Strach - HMD 2025 Public

Hillingdon Libraries - The Story of Eric Strach - HMD 2025

Friday, 31 January 2025,

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Angela Strach tells her fathers story and his family's fate.

Using slides of video clips from testimonies her father gave to the Association of Jewish Refugees and the Shoah Foundation, letters and personal ...

Norden Farm Centre for the Arts - "Nicky's Family" - HMD 2025 Public

Norden Farm Centre for the Arts - "Nicky's Family" - HMD 2025

Tuesday, 28 January 2025,

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.

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Public

St Mary-at-Finchley Parish Church - Talk - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

Our church of St Mary-at-Finchley CE and faith community has been commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day for the past two decades. This year we honour a very special anniversary, 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Guest speaker Emi...

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...