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.
The Medway Holocaust Memorial Day Event will take place at Cliffe Woods Primary School on Tuesday 28 January 2025 from 6pm, with refreshments from 5:30pm
The event includes presentations and payers by students from local schools and Medway ...
Southend City Council will be holding a service of commemoration on Sunday 26th January, 3pm at the Civic Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 6ER. We will welcome holocaust survivor Paul Sved, BEM, to give an address at this service, which will also inc...
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 ...
The Closer Than You Think project and Queer Culture Counts (Peter Moorcraft, Martin Adams & Vinojan Sebanalai) in collaboration with Robert Flood (art installation) & Dalia Halpern at Chatham memorial Synagogue intend to illuminate The Shi...
Susanna Kester, a speaker with G2G, is giving a talk to some pupils from Great Walstead School about her family's experiences during the Holocaust
7.30pm in Westray Parish Kirk - Youth Group for youngsters of secondary school age and older teenagers - watching film of "One Life" and reflecting on issues afterwards.
Students in every year group at Bennett Memorial School from year 7-year 13 will have a HMD themed assembly in the week 27th to 31st Jan.
There will be a display of our HMD objects that were winners in the arts competitions: 75 memorial fla...
St. Paul's Church, Rusthall is holding a Holocaust Memorial Day service starting at 8pm, finishing by 9.30pm. Along with what promises to be a very moving and reflective service, there will be a display at the back of the church containing informa...
On Thursday 6th February Holmewood House Prep School is hosting a generation2generation event. It will start at 2pm and finish at 4.45pm. We also have Mr. Paul Tweddle speaking. We have other schools, both senior and prep joining us to fill the au...
This is an annual service of remembrance for those who lost their lives in the Holocaust. The service, which takes place each year, will be led by Harvey J.Newman, Warden of Colchester & District Jewish Community (Kehilat Yehudim) and is prese...
Kent's Kindertransport Legacy: An Author Talk with Deborah Cadbury and Mike Levy
Join us for a special Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) author event featuring two distinguished authors, Deborah Cadbury and Mike Levy.
Deborah Cadbury is a...
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor is coming to talk our year 9s about her father's plight in the concentration camps and his life thereafter.
Year 10 will have an hour session with a representative of a Holocaust survivor's family, organised through Generation2Generation having been booked for a number of months.
As per previous years in Brighton & Hove, Latest TV is co-hosting this event with Brighton & Hove City Council at Hove Town Hall.
It is a multi-media event comprising speakers (MPs, Council Leader, multi-faith leaders, Police CI and ...
Exhibition at Brighton Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton BN1 1GE from 27 January to 1 Feb 2025 (library opening times), organised by Friends, Families and Travellers and the University of Sussex.
This exhibition looks at pre-war cul...
Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place on the University of Sussex campus on Wednesday 5 February 2025, from 2pm to 5.15pm.
The programme will be split into two sessions:
SESSION 1:
Testimony from our guest sp...
From 12.30pm to 5.00pm on January 27th 2025.
Brighton Quakers invite everybody to join them to light candles and remember all people who have died in genocides around the world.
It is a drop-in event and people can stay for however lon...
Saturday 25 January, 3–5pm.
Anita Peleg tells the remarkable story of her mother Naomi, deported to Auschwitz where several family members were selected for the gas chambers. Following forced labour in a bomb factory and escape from a death ...