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Join us in commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day by exploring a selection of books that reflect on the Holocaust

Join us in commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day by exploring a selection of books that reflect on the Holocaust

Children are invited to design their own candle throughout January for Holocaust Memorial Day, which they can add to our remembrance display.

Tried to include a picture of our display but it wouldn't work. Pupils drew around their hands and wrote a message about how they could create a better future.

To commemorate HMD this year, Shirley Lennon from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust will visit Newry and Mourne Museum to tell the story of Edith Jacobowitz, who escaped from Germany in 1938.

The session will focus on how Edith arrived in No...

My Name Is Might Have Been is a series of paintings by local artist Leslie Nicholl. Each work, painted onto a handkerchief, depicts the face of a person who experienced the Holocaust. The exhibition was inspired by the story of Helen Lewis, a Holo...

This year's LGBTQIA+ Holocaust Memorial & Act of Remembrance in Belfast will take place on Monday 27th January from 12.30pm to 1pm in the Lord Mayor's Parlour of Belfast City Hall.

We will be joined by local historian Michael Lawrence,...

Join us at the Northern Ireland War Memorial on Monday 27 January 2025 from 7pm-8:15pm for a special event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Dan Lewis will share the story of his grandmother, Helen Lewis MBE. Helen was a professional dancer a...

From Kazakhstan to Kilkeel - the story of the Sekules family
Thursday, 16 January 2025, 1-2pm

The Northern Ireland War Memorial in partnership with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) would like to invite you to a ta...

Holocaust Memorial Exhibition

A group exhibition of paintings by Juste Bernotaite, Joanne Jamison, and a series of paintings by Cliff Brooks, (“Smoke in the Cornfield”), will open in the Engine Room Gallery Thursday 6th February ending Sat...

Series of lessons with year 12 students on steps to genocide - anti racism theme
HMD school noticeboard display

"Through these pale cold days."

When my wife and myself visited Auschwitz and Birkenau during a bitterly cold February 1997, I came across the photographs of this young woman.

What struck me, as she looked into the camera that day, w...

We will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 through our school assembly, linking this year's theme to our school values of kindness, resilience, honesty, respect and inclusion. We will share songs, poems and sketches designed or chosen by the c...

Mark Holocaust Memorial Day by composing a short poem on this year’s theme, “For a Better Future”, for display on our giant Wall Art Candle. This event runs from 1:00pm - 2:00pm

ONE LIFE tells the inspiring true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, whose unsung endeavours on the eve of World War II saved more than 600 children from their doom at the hands of the Nazis.

Visit Cloughfern Library this Holocaust Memorial Day and visit the discussion table with cards to help start conversations or remembrance and mental health awareness. Stay a while and explore a range of books on the topic.

A workshop for Keystage 2 children. Csilla Toldy will tell the story of Walter Sekules, a young Jewish boy growing up in a camp for enemy aliens in Kazakhstan. Delivered in conjunction with NI War Memorial Museum.

Generation2Generation speakers will be delivering talks to all of our S3 Citizenship classes.
We also have a whole school assembly on 27/1 to mark HMD and we are inviting the whole school community to light a candle at 8pm on 27/1.

Balancing in Freedom

by Iddo Oberski

(Sat 25 Jan, 8 Feb, 1 Mar and 5 Apr: 2pm)

Iddo: "I'm making this performance piece Svjetlana. It explores human freedom. Would you like to be part of it?"
Svjetlana: "Absolutely yes, ...

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...