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.
At the museum we created an information display, shared information on social media, wrote an article for the local paper, and I talked on BBC Essex and Caroline Coastal Radio shows over the weekend and on 27th January. We refreshed our permanent...
Come along to a commemorative service marking Holocaust Memorial Day.
St George The Martyr Church, George's Road (off Lune Street), Preston PR1 2NP
Accrington Town Hall (42 Blackburn Rd, Accrington, BB5 1LA) and Great Harwood Clock Tower (Town Hall Street, Great Harwood, BB6 7DE) will both be lit purple on the 27th of January 2025 to commemorate International Holocaust Day.
The flag wi...
The service takes place annually at the synagogue and involved students from local non Jewish schools and a keynote speaker. The service is held at 10.30am on Friday the 24 January 2025 and ends at approximately 12 noon. Local dignitaries, Mayor...
Evensong on the Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday 26th January at 4pm in Halifax Minster, led by The Revd Canon Hilary Barber and Rabbi Douglas Chairing. This is the formal commemoration for the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale.
Southend City Council will be holding a service of commemoration on Sunday 26th January, 3pm at the Civic Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 6ER. We will welcome holocaust survivor Paul Sved, BEM, to give an address at this service, which will also inc...
Thursday 27 January 2025, 6.30pm to 8:30pm
Wellcome Building, Carlisle Rd, Eastbourne, BN21 4BP (next to the Congress Theatre)
The event will commemorate those who suffered in The Holocaust under Nazi Persecution, and in subsequent...
St Edmundsbury Cathedral, in conjunction with West Suffolk Council, will be organising a commemorative service on Monday 27 January 2025 at 10.30am at the Memorial Peace Garden within the Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds. The Statement of Commitment...
Civic service at King's Lynn Town Hall with the Borough Mayor and representatives of different faiths.
Readings, school choir and candle lighting
Bury St Edmunds annual ceremony to mark Holocaust Memorial Day at 10.30 am in the Peace Garden of the Abbey Gardens. A ceremony of words and music with students, local Councillors, clergy and members of different religious traditions leading the ...
A service of reflection and remembrance of the victims of the holocaust and of all genocides. The service starts at 10.45am and is scheduled to last for approximately 1 hour
For Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, Jewish Museum London are proud to present for the first time, items from the newly formed Leon Greenman Archive, on display at Bradford Reform Synagogue. Split into five distinct periods of British Holocaust surviv...
Thetford Town Council is lighting up a town centre shop front, along with an information display and electronic candles to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
Bottle Alley's lights will be set to purple on Monday 27 January to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025. You see Bottle Alley light up purple at 7.30pm and 9.30pm. The shows will last for around five minutes.
Mon 27 January 2025, 1.15pm
Leeds Cathedral, Cathedral Chambers, Great George Street, Leeds, LS2 8BE
Darius Battiwalla
Leeds City Organist
Holocaust Memorial Day
Felix Mendelssohn - Sonata No 1 in F minor
Fel...
Join the Lord Mayor for an afternoon of commemoration
The theme for this year’s event is ‘For a Better Future’
Sunday 26 January, 2pm
City Varieties Music Hall Swan Street, Leeds LS1 6LW
Free and open to all
The event...
A session with students to hear from a family member of a Holocaust victim.
A civic event held at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings. Supported y Hastings Borough Council and run by the Hastings Jewish Community. The full programme includes a specially written play, contributions from a local school, prayers and candle ...
• 11:00hrs - Stalls & exhibits open - view displays and engage with stall holders and communities
• 12:00hrs - The candle lighting ceremony in remembrance.
(On completion visitors can continue to view the stands and this will be a...
Join us as we walk together across the Colchester campus with our lanterns, crafted by the University of Essex Origami Society. The procession will finish with a gathering on the Silberrad Student Centre Plaza for a moment of reflection.