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.
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...
David W visited the academy as a second generation Holocaust survivor to tell our Year 9 cohort how the Holocaust impacted his parents.
A Holocaust Memorial event including talks and screening of recently filmed interview with camp survivor in Poland. Memorial candle will be lit at 11am.
The students in years 9 -11 (approx 1,500) at Thomas Hardye School are going to create a memorial wall to remember the Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. Each student will write the name of one child on a luggage tag and these will be moun...
We lowered the Union Flag to half mast in recognition of Holocaust Memorial Day. Please find evidence on our social media channels.
There was also a service in the town centre that the town council organised where local district council rep...
3 speakers from Generation 2 Generation presented assemblies to Year 7, 8, 9,10, 12 and 13 across the day of Tuesday 21st January. The assemblies were attended by 719 students and 30 staff across the 5 assembly slots.
P1 (0850 - 0950)Year 9 ...
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...
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...
An annual memorial service to recognise Holocaust Memorial Day will take place in Radipole Park and Gardens, Radipole Park Drive, Weymouth on Monday 27th January.
The service will begin at 10:30am at the Holocaust memorial tree, planted nea...
27th January, 2025
Image above courtesy of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Monday 27th January marks Holocaust Memorial Day, which is the anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau in 194...
In November 2024 Space 4 participants worked alongside artist Mary Watson to create a candleholder inspired by the life story of Henry Wuga MBE who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, was evacuated then interned. He settled and married in...
Vivienne Cato came to our school today to speak to the Year 6 children on the anniversary of the Holocaust (Holocaust Memorial Day) about her Mother's experience of the Holocaust. Vivienne provided a detailed powerpoint with video clips and there ...
Year 6 had a speaker to deliver the Holocaust Assembly and life for a Jew in this time. Discussion on the story of Leon Goodman . The class then made boxes for their candle to the home and light in the evening.
School assembly followed by making doves with a message of hope for the future. These are then displayed in school
Pupils all have a candle to display and light at home in the evening.
We will be having a small display of photographs, information, documents and of course our 80 Candles entry which will commemorate the Pioneer Corps in Ilfracombe during World War 2.
The Pioneer Corps was made up of of many Jewish refugees f...
Skimstone Arts presents
Turning to Face The Sun
Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library, 33 New Bridge Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX
Thursday 30th January 2025.
Performances at 12 pm and 1.30 pm
As ...
As part of Newcastle City Council's Holocaust Memorial Day commemorative programme, Professor Ian Biddle tells the story of how we came to understand the term “Holocaust” and where it comes from. Who first coined the term? When did it become a pro...
When the Holocaust became the Holocaust: changing imaginations of genocide in the West
Bewick Hall, City Library
Thursday 30 January, 5.15pm
FREE, but booking essential at Newcastle Libraries Eventbrite
Professor Ian Bidd...
A Talk by
Smajo Bešo OBE, Founder & Chair, NE Board of the Bosnian Genocide Educational Trust
Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library (on-line livestream available)
Wednesday 29 January 2025, 2.00pm
Tickets for in-pers...
A story-sharing and performance event, in which light, audio recordings and live performances, inspired by Ukrainian, Jewish, Palestinian, Kurdistan Iraqi and other war testimonies, help us explore what it means to look for hope and resolution, an...