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.
Finding Ivy is an exhibition curated by Dr. Helen Atherton (University of Leeds) and focuses on the experiences of British-born victims of the Nazi war on disabled people. The exhibition tells the story of Ivy Angerer and 12 other British-born vic...
Short act of remembrance focussing on Jane Haining from Dunscore village who died in Auschwitz
in 1944. She was the matron of the Scottish Mission to the Jews School in Budapest from 1932 until her death.
Pupils from Dunscore Primary ...
This is an annual service of remembrance for those who lost their lives in the Holocaust. The service, which takes place each year, will be led by Harvey J.Newman, Warden of Colchester & District Jewish Community (Kehilat Yehudim) and is prese...
The Medway Holocaust Memorial Day Event will take place at Cliffe Woods Primary School on Tuesday 28 January 2025 from 6pm, with refreshments from 5:30pm
The event includes presentations and payers by students from local schools and Medway ...
Art Central Gallery, Barry South Wales will be presenting its 18th Holocaust Memorial Day Exhibition.
The 27th of January 2025, will be Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) where many remember a scarred world sadly drenched...
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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While the Holocaust is remembered rightly as an act of genocide against Europe’s Jewish population, the Nazis also sent close to 250,000 people with disabilities to their deaths. (Source: Holocaust Memorial Day Trust)
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The Closer Than You Think project and Queer Culture Counts (Peter Moorcraft, Martin Adams & Vinojan Sebanalai) in collaboration with Robert Flood (art installation) & Dalia Halpern at Chatham memorial Synagogue intend to illuminate The Shi...
'In Discussion' Hosted by Raegan Kingett is an event that includes leading academics from the University of Winchester and University of Southampton on the field of Holocaust and Genocide studies through an inter-disciplinary lens. This event will...
Union of Jewish Students invites students from across London to hear from Holocaust survivor Ivan Shaw BEM on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, HMD 80.
GoodVibes is YMCA Swansea's LGBTQ+ youth group that meets in Person at YMCA Swansea every Tuesday 6-8pm. This HMD we will be paying respect by creating and lighting candles and in on honor of those LGBTQ persons who were persecuted and those who s...
We have a poster designed with quote from the Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and Norma Glass, a member of the Welsh Jewish community, which will be uploaded on our social media platforms on the 27th of January 2025.
Sgwrs Astudiaethau Lleol
Anne Cardenas - "Oral Histories of the Kindertransport in Wales"
25 Ionawr
2pm yn yr Ystafell Ddarganfod, llawr cyntaf Llyfrgell Ganolog Abertawe.
Local Studies Talk
-Anne Cardenas - "Ora...
Our guest speaker, Melanie Martin, will share the story of Tootje (Cato) Granaat (1926 – 2020) on Tuesday, 28th January 2025, from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions towards the end of the session.
St John Lloyd Catholic School are proud to be supporting the Holocaust theme for this year 'For a Better Future'. Year 8 will be leading assembly, bringing awareness to the school community and securing a better future for all.
We held an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau which included talks, from local activists presentation from students at Coleg Sir Gar and the viewing of a recording made by one of our organisers of an interv...
There will be a ceremony in Crawley's Memorial Gardens, poetry reading and candle lighting (weather permitting)
A Holocaust Memorial event including talks and screening of recently filmed interview with camp survivor in Poland. Memorial candle will be lit at 11am.
80 Years Since Auschwitz: Horsham Commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day
On Monday, 27 January 2025, Horsham District Council commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day. Flags were lowered to half-mast, and the Capitol Theatre was illuminated in purp...
Tunbridge Wells Branch of Oddfellows are hosting a talk at the Ex-Services Club in East Grinstead. The talk is 'The Story of Major Leonard Berney, one of the first of the Allied troops to enter Belsen camp on 15th April 1945.
The talk given ...