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.
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...
Tunbridge Wells Branch of Oddfellows are hosting a talk at the Ex-Services Club in East Grinstead. The talk is 'The Story of Major Leonard Berney, one of the first of the Allied troops to enter Belsen camp on 15th April 1945.
The talk given ...
Havant Borough Council are planning on holding a short non-denominational service of commemoration at the Holocaust Memorial at Havant Cemetery, Eastern Road, Havant PO9 2JQ at 11.00 am on Monday 27th January 2025.
The service will focus o...
Starting at 17.45, this service of Choral Evensong will have a special focus on Holocaust Memorial Day to remember the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. With music sung by the Cathedral Choir (Girl Choristers), the sermon will be gi...
Portsmouth guildhall will be lit purple.
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.
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...
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...
All pupils get a tealight, and write a word related to hope/a better future/remembrance/commemoration on the base. These are then used to create a giant Star of David, which the whole School will be able to view. This will be accompanied by a sl...
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
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
• 11:00hrs - Stalls & exhibits open - view displays and engage with stall holders and communities
• 12:00hrs - The candle lighting ceremony in remembrance.
(On completion visitors can continue to view the stands and this will be a...
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...