National Library of Wales - Light the Darkness - HMD 2025
Monday, 27 January 2025,On 27 January to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day the National Library of Wales will light up the building
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.
On 27 January to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day the National Library of Wales will light up the building
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...
Arrangements are being made to light up Canolfan Alun R. Edwards and the Bandstand in Aberystwyth to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Talk about Holocaust and impact on families.
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...
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,...
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 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...
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....
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, ...
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 ...
I spoke in several independent senior schools on the Holocaust:
28 January 2025: Delivered four sessions, including full school assembly for 800+ students, at Harrow School.
3 February 2025: Delivered talk to full school assembly at R...
Talk from a descendent of Holocaust survivors to two year 9 groups.
To A Child Refugee in a Foreign Land
Grete Rudkin (nee Glauber) was born in Vienna in 1930. In 1939, her mother Elsa sent Grete to England on the Kindertransport, and she began a new life in Enfield under the care of Olive Rudkin
Thi...
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.
<...We have invited a speaker from Generation2Generation to come in to speak to Y9-11 pupils.
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...
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...
St James' Catholic High school hosted five speakers from Generation2Generation to speak to our pupils.
Each year group heard from a speaker who shared their family story for pupils.
Y7 & Y8 heard from Jane Curzon who shared the ...
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