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.
The commemoration will take place at the Great Hall in the Guildhall, Northampton, beginning at 1pm. The programme will feature a diverse range of reflections, performances, and tributes, including:
Welcome speeches by WNC’s Chairman Cllr J...
You’re Invited… For a Better Future – Remembering the Holocaust
A Panel Discussion with Faith Leaders and the Chair of B&NES Council
Weston Free Church (Moravian), High St, Weston, Bath BA1 4DB
3pm – 5pm, Thursday 23rd Janu...
‘For a Better Future’: Remembering the Holocaust in Bath and North East Somerset
A special ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, is taking place in Bath on January 27.
A simple quiet reflection for anyone to join in between 17:00 and 21:00
Silences
Lighting 80 candles
Some recorded memories
Maps of Holocaust and genocide locations
Reading materials
Mindful drawings
Pray...
A quiet space to come together
listen to reflections
light 80 candles
intercede into The World
17:00-21:00
HMD Lecture by Susanna Rosenberg (booked through Generation2Generation)
We will be planting 50 trees - grant funding has been secured from Bath & North East Somerset Council by Gavin Heathcote and Nathan Hartley through a third party charity.
24/01/25
Start time: 8:55am
End time: 9.25am
Assembly on Holocaust Memorial Day and remembrance in the Senior School including:
- Powerpoint and script put together by myself (Anna Buxcey, Head of RS)
- Violin solo (...
This is one of many events taking place, but we had a Jeanette Marx come in to share her mother's testimony to all our year 12 students (140), as part of the their Core lesson. This was arranged through generation2generation.
The Somerset Holocaust Memorial event will be held in St Johns Church, Park Street Taunton TA1 4DG on Monday 27th January 2025 12.30 till 13.30. This commemoration is organised by a small collection of community representatives, Somerset Interfait...
A non-denominational commemoration event held at St John the Evangelist church, Taunton on Monday 27th January from 12.30 until 1.30pm.
Remembering all those who have been affected by the Holocaust and genocide through readings, music, layin...
An hour in the evening with music, stories and reflection for the 80th anniversary. Sunday January 26th at 6.30pm
St Peter ad Vincula Church, Ashwater, Beaworthy, Devon EX21 5EY
Our Unitarian chaplain, Rev Dr Claire MacDonald, along with Wendy Fidler MBE will lead an event for Holocaust Memorial Day. The Harris Manchester College choir will sing Mark Miller's I Believe.
The Choir of Worcester College sing their regular service of Choral Evensong. The Rt Revd Steven Croft, Bishop of Oxford, will preach with Holocaust Memorial Day as his focus. The service will feature psalms of lament and hope, and an anthem by No...
We are having a speaker provided by Generation2Generation provided who will give a presentation and talk, followed by Q&A. This will be for both staff and prisoners. Resources and films will also be available throughout the month.
A ceremony with music, readings and testimony, a period of silence during which 80 candles were laid to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. The vent closed with all sharing the Stockholm Statement of Commitment.
It woul...
The annual Holocaust Memorial Day event has been moved to the Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Saxon Gate, Milton Keynes MK9 2ES in view of the weather forecast for Sunday.
The Sunday 26 January 2025 event will still start at 3 p.m. as adve...
Voices of the Holocaust education programme on the 24th January 2025 which includes and assembly to our Year 9 and School Council. As well as a production/play to the group. This is specifically aimed at Year 9 - who study the Holocaust at part o...
Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025: For a Better Future
The Higgins Bedford Entrance Foyer: 25 Jan – 2 February 2025, Free Entry
This Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on
27 January marks the 80th anniversary of<...
In this talk, Professor Adam Jones will introduce his work on photographing sites and evidence of genocide and discuss the wider context of how photography has been so crucial in making society
aware of instances of mass violence. There are ...