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.
A commemoration to honour all Holocaust victims, with a special focus on the Roma community. This reflective event will provide time and space to remember those who suffered and to renew our commitment to building a future free from prejudice and ...
An event to commemorate and celebrate the role played in the Relief of Belsen in the spring of 1945 by one of our local regiments - the 113 LAA RA TA, affiliated to the Durham Light Infantry - when men from the Northeast helped Jewish, Roma and ot...
Artists
Violin: Alexandra Soumm, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Dana Zemtsov
Cello: Bartholomew LaFollette
Piano: Katya Apekisheva, Anthony Hewitt
Oboe: Julian Scott
Theremi...
Composers forced into Exile in the United States
Artists
Violin: Jack Liebeck, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Benjamin Roskams
Cello: Adrian Brendel
Tenor: Alex Aldren
Clarinet: Jessica Lee
Piano: D...
A unique installation created by a member of the Jewish community, representing the mass transportation of the Pardubice Jews to Terezin and onward to Auschwitz.
A Commemorative event open to the public, held in one of our Diocesan schools, St Mary's Catholic School, Benton Newcastle upon Tyne. The event was attended by our Bishop Stephen Wright and the Rabbi Aaron Lipse...
Artists
Director: Robert Hersey
Violin: Kyra Humphreys, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Anna Barsegjana
Cello: Gabriel Waite
Clarinet: Dov Goldberg
Flute: Charlotte Ashton
Piano: Yoshie Kawamura
Brought together by an international team of musicians, archival researchers, musicologists and geographers in one of the biggest research projects initiated by the Royal College of Music to date, this temporary exhibition charts the mobile lives,...
Our annual event takes place in the council chambers and hosts schools, and speakers including an invited keynote, a survivor or family descendant. Our Mayor, Young mayor. We will have musical accompaniment from a choir singing a dedicated HMD son...
'For a better future'
Holocaust Commemoration remembering the Holocaust and Bosnian Genocide.
We have two speakers, Mr David Gold from the United Hebrew Congregation in Newcastle, and Mr Samajo Beso OBE, a survivor of the Bosnian Genoc...
In this talk, Professor Adam Jones will introduce his work on photographing sites and evidence of genocide and discuss the wider context of how photography has been so crucial in making society
aware of instances of mass violence. There are ...
The Exeter HMD 2025 Opening Ceremony will be held at Exeter Cathedral at 10am on Monday 27th January 2025. Open to the public and local schools, dignitaries and representatives from diverse faith and belief groups will light candles in commemorati...
Assembly and tutor group activities. Testimony from 4 of our students who visited Auschwitz this year as part of the 'Lessons from Auschwitz Project'. These students took up the responsibility to become witnesses for the future 80 years. We then ...
A church service with prayers, reflections and presentation of this year's theme.
We will vow "Never Again"
We will pray and reflect on 80 years since the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
We will consider our own response to evi...
Monday 27th January 7.00 pm - Church Service
Cumbria's Museum of Military Life, located within the historic walls of Carlisle Castle, is proud to support the 'Light the Darkness' movement for Holocaust Memorial Day. In collaboration with Rocket Productions, a fellow site tenant, we will illu...
Raising of Holocaust Flag and blessing by Rabbi.
Personal Stories,
School readings.
Exhibition
Prayers and blessings
hosted by young people
10:15 -noon
Exhibition of events relating to pre-war Jewish life and culture, through the Nazi's rise to power, anti-Semitic acts and laws and culminating in events from the Holocaust. Exhibition will be open weekdays from January 20th until January 27th incl...
An hour in the evening with music, stories and reflection for the 80th anniversary. Sunday January 26th at 6.30pm
St Peter ad Vincula Church, Ashwater, Beaworthy, Devon EX21 5EY
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 ...