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.
When the Holocaust became the Holocaust: changing imaginations of genocide in the West
Bewick Hall, City Library
Thursday 30 January, 5.15pm
FREE, but booking essential at Newcastle Libraries Eventbrite
Professor Ian Bidd...
A Talk by
Smajo Bešo OBE, Founder & Chair, NE Board of the Bosnian Genocide Educational Trust
Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library (on-line livestream available)
Wednesday 29 January 2025, 2.00pm
Tickets for in-pers...
A story-sharing and performance event, in which light, audio recordings and live performances, inspired by Ukrainian, Jewish, Palestinian, Kurdistan Iraqi and other war testimonies, help us explore what it means to look for hope and resolution, an...
A commemoration to honour all Holocaust victims, with a special focus on the Roma community. This reflective event will provide time and space to remember those who suffered and to renew our commitment to building a future free from prejudice and ...
An event to commemorate and celebrate the role played in the Relief of Belsen in the spring of 1945 by one of our local regiments - the 113 LAA RA TA, affiliated to the Durham Light Infantry - when men from the Northeast helped Jewish, Roma and ot...
Artists
Violin: Alexandra Soumm, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Dana Zemtsov
Cello: Bartholomew LaFollette
Piano: Katya Apekisheva, Anthony Hewitt
Oboe: Julian Scott
Theremi...
Composers forced into Exile in the United States
Artists
Violin: Jack Liebeck, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Benjamin Roskams
Cello: Adrian Brendel
Tenor: Alex Aldren
Clarinet: Jessica Lee
Piano: D...
A unique installation created by a member of the Jewish community, representing the mass transportation of the Pardubice Jews to Terezin and onward to Auschwitz.
Artists
Director: Robert Hersey
Violin: Kyra Humphreys, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Anna Barsegjana
Cello: Gabriel Waite
Clarinet: Dov Goldberg
Flute: Charlotte Ashton
Piano: Yoshie Kawamura
Brought together by an international team of musicians, archival researchers, musicologists and geographers in one of the biggest research projects initiated by the Royal College of Music to date, this temporary exhibition charts the mobile lives,...
'For a better future'
Holocaust Commemoration remembering the Holocaust and Bosnian Genocide.
We have two speakers, Mr David Gold from the United Hebrew Congregation in Newcastle, and Mr Samajo Beso OBE, a survivor of the Bosnian Genoc...
Our annual event takes place in the council chambers and hosts schools, and speakers including an invited keynote, a survivor or family descendant. Our Mayor, Young mayor. We will have musical accompaniment from a choir singing a dedicated HMD son...
Raising of Holocaust Flag and blessing by Rabbi.
Personal Stories,
School readings.
Exhibition
Prayers and blessings
hosted by young people
10:15 -noon
Harlow Council is holding a ceremony to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 at the Civic Centre on Sunday 26th January 2025 at 5.00-6.00 pm. This will be led by Rabbi Irit Shillor from the Harlow Jewish Community. The ceremony will include readings o...
On 27 January to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day the National Library of Wales will light up the building
Arrangements are being made to light up Canolfan Alun R. Edwards and the Bandstand in Aberystwyth to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Tuesday 28 January 8pm
Telling the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton.
Sir Nicholas Winton was a young London broker who, along with Trevor Chadwick and Doreen Warriner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, ...
To A Child Refugee in a Foreign Land
Grete Rudkin (nee Glauber) was born in Vienna in 1930. In 1939, her mother Elsa sent Grete to England on the Kindertransport, and she began a new life in Enfield under the care of Olive Rudkin
Thi...
Holocaust Memorial Day: Nicky's Family
Dir: Matej Minac 2011 | 96 mins
The remarkable true story of Maidenhead resident Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued over 600 Jewish Czech and Slovak children at the outbreak of World War II.
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To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Angela Strach tells her fathers story and his family's fate.
Using slides of video clips from testimonies her father gave to the Association of Jewish Refugees and the Shoah Foundation, letters and personal ...