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.
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.
Series of lessons with year 12 students on steps to genocide - anti racism theme
HMD school noticeboard display
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 ...
"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...
Display to reflect Holocaust Memorial Day along side a special display on the Millisle Kibbutz.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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.
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...
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.
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...
Join us in commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day by exploring a selection of books that reflect on the Holocaust
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.
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 ...
Mr Bayne will be visiting the library to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day by delivering a talk on WW2 and Heroes and speaking about Rob the War Dog. This talk takes place at 10:30am.
Join us in commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day by exploring a selection of books that reflect on the Holocaust
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