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.
Mon 27 January 2025, 1.15pm
Leeds Cathedral, Cathedral Chambers, Great George Street, Leeds, LS2 8BE
Darius Battiwalla
Leeds City Organist
Holocaust Memorial Day
Felix Mendelssohn - Sonata No 1 in F minor
Fel...
Whole school assembly
This will be a formal event starting at 4.45pm in the main Market Square in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The event is hosted and co-ordinated by Cllr Ed Fordham.
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There will be readin...
The service takes place annually at the synagogue and involved students from local non Jewish schools and a keynote speaker. The service is held at 10.30am on Friday the 24 January 2025 and ends at approximately 12 noon. Local dignitaries, Mayor...
Join the Lord Mayor for an afternoon of commemoration
The theme for this year’s event is ‘For a Better Future’
Sunday 26 January, 2pm
City Varieties Music Hall Swan Street, Leeds LS1 6LW
Free and open to all
The event...
I lit my candle and put it in the window where it shone a little light into a dark garden and a dark rural landscape. All I could do was to shine a little light into the darkness - it was something but not much!
A service of reflection and remembrance of the victims of the holocaust and of all genocides. The service starts at 10.45am and is scheduled to last for approximately 1 hour
Join Settle Quakers in a Peace Vigil to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025.
6.45 pm Meet in Settle Market Place with a lighted candle and walk in silence with us to the Meeting House. There will be an exhibition to mark Holocaust Memorial Day...
On the 27th of January, Lancaster University hosted a talk and Q&A. Ernie Hunter joined us as he gave a talk about his Mother's experiences in the Holocaust.
The event was held from 3:00pm - 4:00pm.
The event was held in our li...
Learning from genocide for a better future. This ceremony will be attended by civic leaders of Stafford Borough. It marks the designation of Saint Mary's, Stafford as a sanctuary church, and the main speaker will reflect this.
Holocaust Memorial outdoor service and candle lighting.
Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg will give a talk to Years 9, 10, and 11 pupils at Burton Borough School in Newport, Telford on the 21st January 2025 at 2.10pm.
6th form history pupils from nearby Newport Girls School and Adams Grammar Sc...
The City of Doncaster annual HMD Ceremony will take place at the Mansion House on High Street in the City of Doncaster.
The ceremony will start at 0930hrs for approximately 2 hours.
The service will include a blessing, readings and p...
Holocaust Memorial Day Event
1940s DANCE FOR PEACE - Sunday 26th January
Gregson Centre, 33 - 35 Moor Gate, Lancaster LA1 3PY - £7.50
Jive 6.30-8.00pm - Salsa 8.00-9.30pm
This event is to mark Holocaust Memorial Day - notab...
A small display to raise awareness about the holocaust and other events. The circumstances that lead to holocaust and the need for greater awareness of our differing backgrounds.
We are going to get the Scouts to look at the booklets, watch a couple of the online videos to explain what the Memorial Day is about.
We will give them time to discuss what they know and reflect on what they know and have seen or read about...
Calling all 80 Candles Quilt Participants! Join Community Arts Practitioner Laura Burrill for a private unveiling of our completed work!
A chance to share research, meet fellow participants, see the finished quilt before it goes on display ...
Cubs meeting
We meet every Monday at our scout hq.
As we mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau join us at the Multi Faith Centre to see the collaboratively produced 80 Candles Quilt and learn about some of those documented.
10am - Welco...
Join Community Arts Practitioner Laura Burrill to explore stories of some of those affected by the Holocaust and help create a slow stitch patchwork memory quilt to bear witness for those who endured genocide, and honour the survivors and all thos...