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.
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, ...
The Edinburgh Interfaith Association (EIFA) shall coordinate the official City of Edinburgh Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration at Edinburgh City Chambers on 27 Janury 2025. The event is private and shall invlude 80 local high school students as...
West Lothian Council hold an event each year in Livingston to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. This event is invite-only and will take place on Monday 27 January.
Edinburgh Castle will floodlight the Castle purple on the evening of 27/01/25 for the Light the Darkness campaign/Holocaust Memorial Day.
Pupils are organising an assembly for the whole school which they will deliver to year groups with the support of teachers.
This is following their learning about the Holocaust, it's impact and why we need to mark HMD.
The assembly fol...
Pupils will be using their Skills Academy classes to create a Holocaust Memorial Day Memorial Flame collectively, this is following learning about the Holocaust and research testimonies.
Join us in commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day by exploring a selection of books that reflect on the Holocaust
Holocaust Memorial Service, 11am at Saltcoats War Memorial. Short service, minutes silence, Pipers lament and blessing. Hosted by the Saltcoats, Ardrossan and Stevenston (SAS) Branch of Legion Scotland.
Holocaust Memorial Day Event
For this event, we are honoured to be hosting speakers whose parents were survivors of the Holocaust, and who made a life in Scotland. As many of those who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust first-hand are no longer with us, we now look to t...
On Tues 28th January 2025, St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art will host an event for our local primary school which commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day through guest speakers, workshops and art activities.
In the lead up to the even...
We will have our Lessons from Auschwitz pupils sharing their experiences, the music department performing and a speaker from Generation to Generation sharing her family’s story.
Glasgow Caledonian University is commemorating the eightieth anniversaries of the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of the Second World War in Europe with three talks on the themes of criminality in war, military occupation, and their effects on...
Online service on Zoom to include celebration of 80th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and remembering 30th Anniversary of genocide in Bosnia. There will be hymns, prayers and times of reflection.
From 8pm on Monday 27th January, we plan to light up in purple the Markinch building of Heart of Fife Parish Church. This is in the centre of the historic village of Markinch in Fife.
What3Words location - ///saints.ropes.trick
For a better future: an open craft session for everyone to drop in and add to our Peace Tree by creating a colourful decoration for Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day - Schools Programme
Good Relations department in Fermanagh and Omagh District Council has organised two workshops for post primary schools in the district. The workshop will be led by Generation2Generation representat...
Good Relations department in Fermanagh and Omagh District Council has organised a public workshop led by Generation2Generation representative Maralyn Turgel who will share the story of her father Sam Gardner born in 1925 as Shmuel Yankel Golberg...
Light up of iconic local landmark-the Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow sculptures to mark the day with a corresponding post on our Inverclyde Council social media channels
On the morning of 29th January, G2G speaker Noreen Plen with present, remotely, the story of her parents, Jan Kurz-Bernstein and Lola Waksman and their Polish Jewish families. Both were survivors of the Holocaust.
The presentation will be ...