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.
6pm - Tolling tenor bell half-muffled, i.e. alternately muffled (in memory) and open/loud and bright (prayer for better future).
General public can hear the bell being tolled across the local community, especially closer to the church.
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International musical artist TIMNA BRAUER presents a programme of work marking the influence of Jewish music and tradition across global cultures.
A very special event in association with Association of Jewish Refugees and Austrian Cultural...
A Holocaust Memorial Service is being held at the Garden of Remembrance, Sandgate Road, Folkestone at 11am on Monday 27 January 2025. Local secondary schools are invited to take part and do their own research into the Holocaust, presenting some o...
The Anne Frank Trust, Cumbria and Chetwynde Secondary school, Barrow are hosting a commemoration assembly on Monday 27th January - 2:30pm-3:30pm. This will be led by Anne Frank student ambassadors and other students from the Secondary and Primary ...
The Holocaust Memorial evening is an invitation for reflection, listening to music performed by students of the school; meeting survivors (such as Diana Cook from Bungay speaking about her mother Margot Hodge as well as Roxanne de Bastion on her f...
This will be an interfaith ceremony for the local community. Local schools will be asked to contribute.
29th, 30th and 31st assemblies in the morning to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day and the ensuing week.
HMD Jersey takes place in the Occupation Tapestry Gallery in Jersey Maritime Museum. It is organised by Jersey Heritage, in partnership with Jersey Jewish Congregation and Jersey Arts Centre for the Office of the Bailiff of Jersey. The ceremony be...
St Peter’s Church in Sheringham will be holding a special service to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on the 27th of January at 7pm.
The service will consist of a survivors story, prayers from both the Church of England and the Council for Chri...
This ceremony will include a reflective speech given by Professor Lawrence Goldman, Emeritus Fellow in History, St Peter’s College, Oxford and live music performance by Jewish performers “Da Marjanbo”.
2:30pm | Kensington Gardens
A local school will join the international community in placing 80 decorative candles as part of the “80 candles for 80 years” campaign.
11:00am | Lowestoft Railway Station
Remembering Lowestoft's connection to the Kindertransport, there will be a series of reflections and poetry given by Lowestoft Town Councillors and local academy schools. This event will also include the ...
Great Yarmouth Borough Council is to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 with its annual service in the borough.
The service will take place at the Blackfriars Cemetery in Blackfriars Road, Great Yarmouth.
The service will be led by Rev...
Church service of prayer and reflection to focus mainly on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the national theme "For a Better Future".
Music will be provided by Sheila Morbey (violin), Geoff Gordon (piano), an...
Speaker from Northern Holocaust Education Group coming to speak with all students in year 9-11
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...
From early evening (5pm approx), Middlesbrough Tower at Teesside University's Middlesbrough Campus will be illuminated in purple to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
On 27th January 2025 at 5.30 p.m. we will be holding a short history talk in the Hebrew Prayer House and brief commemorative event at our 2022 Auschwitz Poem Silver Birch tree (seen in the photograph) to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation...
80 years on from the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, On HMD 27-01-2025 Fishburn Parish Council will light The Queen Elizabeth II Beacon of Hope at 7pm for 20/30 minutes with a short reading, Front Street, Fishburn TS21 4AA
Kilkeel Library invites you to come and view our 'Moments of Reflection' book display to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. A collection of authentic stories and memories to remember this moment in time together.