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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.

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Josef Herman Art Foundation, Ystradgynlais - "A Real Pain" - HMD 2025

Friday, 31 January 2025,

In partnership with the Miners' Welfare Hall, Ystradgynlais, Powys, where Josef spent every day reading the news of what was happening in Europe during the War, the Josef Herman Art Foundation Cymru is showing, 'A Real Pain'. The film shows how tw...

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Bishop Luffa School - (Tea)Lights in the Darkness - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

All pupils get a tealight, and write a word related to hope/a better future/remembrance/commemoration on the base. These are then used to create a giant Star of David, which the whole School will be able to view. This will be accompanied by a sl...

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Portsmouth Cathedral - Choral Evensong - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

Starting at 17.45, this service of Choral Evensong will have a special focus on Holocaust Memorial Day to remember the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. With music sung by the Cathedral Choir (Girl Choristers), the sermon will be gi...

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Ringwood Meeting House Association - Book of Commemoration - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

The Ringwood Meeting House Association are hosting this event in the Ringwood Meeting House and History Centre.

The book of commemoration which was started in 2016 will (after a long gap owing to the COVID19 pandemic) once again be availabl...

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South Wales Police - Talk/Ceremony - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

We are starting the day with an engagement activity at the Police Learning Centre located at South Wales Police Headquarters. We are asking Officers, Students, and Staff to write what Holocaust Memorial Day means to them, on a purple post-it, and ...

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Bangor University - Holocaust Memorial Day Service - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

A service to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 will be held at Powis Hall, Main Arts Building, College Road, in Bangor on Monday, 27 January, from 10:30 am to 11:30 am.

The theme of this year’s service is ‘For a Better Future’ and wil...

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Weidenfeld Institute - Survivor Talk and Film Screening - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 5 February 2025,

Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place on the University of Sussex campus on Wednesday 5 February 2025, from 2pm to 5.15pm.

The programme will be split into two sessions:

SESSION 1:

Testimony from our guest sp...

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Sherborne School - Assembly - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

Address to 600 boys about HMD focusing on the 30th anniversary of the Bosnian atrocities and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Public

Kushti Bok - Holocaust Memorial Service - HMD 2025

Saturday, 2 August 2025,

Date: 2nd August 2024
Time: 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Wimborne Minster
All are Welcome – Free to Attend
Join us for a Holocaust Memorial Service at Wimborne Minster, as we come together to remember the lives lost during the Holocau...

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Gellionnen Chapel - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

Join us at Gellionnen Unitarian Chapel, Pontardawe, for our Holocaust Memorial Service, led by our minister Rev. Rory Castle Jones. The theme of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day is 'For a better future'. An hour of community, spirituality and re...

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Stockton Central Library - Survivor Speaker - HMD 2025

Thursday, 23 January 2025,

23/1/2025
Commences at 5.30 Speaker from Lessons from Auschwitz Ambassador & Suzie Kaufman speaks about her Three Refugee Parents, who fled Nazi suppression. Candle will be lit and following a minutes silence musicians will play theme tu...

Westmorland and Furness Council - Light the Darkness - HMD 2025 Public

Westmorland and Furness Council - Light the Darkness - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

Westmorland and Furness Council will mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) by lighting up buildings and flying the HMD flag.

On Monday 27 January, Barrow and Kendal Town Halls will be illuminated in purple, while the HMD flag will f...