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.
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 ...
The London Borough of Barnet Holocaust Memorial Commemoration Service is being held on Sunday 26th January 2025 at 2pm - 3.30pm in the Quadrangle at Middlesex University NW4 4BT.
We have a full program opening with the Mayor of Barnet and th...
Author Vanessa Holburn tells the story of the Seilers - a Jewish family from Hungary, who suffered the horrors of Auschwitz and Belsen
Wednesday 29th January 7pm-8pm
Uxbridge Library
Booking essential, visit Discovery Hillingdo...
In the lead up to HMD 2025, on the 24th January 2025, we are inviting pupils across West Gwent (Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly and Torfaen) to attend a live webinar to hear the testimony of Eva Clarke. Eva Clarke, who has a personal connection to the a...