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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.

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The Peterborough School - Remembrance Assembly - HMD 2025

Friday, 24 January 2025,

24/01/25
Start time: 8:55am
End time: 9.25am

Assembly on Holocaust Memorial Day and remembrance in the Senior School including:
- Powerpoint and script put together by myself (Anna Buxcey, Head of RS)
- Violin solo (...

Gregson Community Centre - 1940s Dance for Peace - HMD 2025 Public

Gregson Community Centre - 1940s Dance for Peace - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

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...

Private household - Candle lighting - HMD 2025 Private

Private household - Candle lighting - HMD 2025

Thursday, 16 January 2025,

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!

Public

Bromsgrove District Council - Service - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

A short Service will take place at Bromsgrove District Council, Parkside Suite, Parkside, Market Street, Bromsgrove B61 8DA at 11 am.

The Service had originally been planned to take place in Sanders Park. PLEASE NOTE: due to the weather f...

Public

Warwick Town Council - Mayor of Warwick, street service - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

Warwick holds a Holocaust Memorial Day event every year in Church Street, Warwick, by the War Memorial. Local schools are fully involved in choosing and reading poems and other writings on the Holocaust and other genocides. A short service of reme...

Redditch District Council - Survivor Talk - HMD 2025 Public

Redditch District Council - Survivor Talk - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

This year, we are marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkeanu and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica with special talks from two extraordinary survivors of genocide.

Simon Winston BEM: Born in 1938 t...

Redditch District Council - Memorial Service - HMD 2025 Public

Redditch District Council - Memorial Service - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

This year, Redditch Borough Council are holding a service for Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday 26 January.

An outdoor commemoration will be taking place at 11.00am at the Holocaust Memorial Marker in Redditch Town Centre and is suitable fo...

Stratford-upon-Avon College - Display - HMD 2025 Private

Stratford-upon-Avon College - Display - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

I have handmade a display consisting of facts, poems, testimonies, book recommendations and where to read for further information.
I included the websites used for supporting me.
I also displayed leaflets and stickers. I included some ...

Public

Stockton Central Library - Survivor Speaker - HMD 2025

Thursday, 23 January 2025,

23/1/2025
Commences at 5.30 Speaker from Lessons from Auschwitz Ambassador & Suzie Kaufman speaks about her Three Refugee Parents, who fled Nazi suppression. Candle will be lit and following a minutes silence musicians will play theme tu...

Public

West Northamptonshire Council - Public Ceremony - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

The commemoration will take place at the Great Hall in the Guildhall, Northampton, beginning at 1pm. The programme will feature a diverse range of reflections, performances, and tributes, including:

Welcome speeches by WNC’s Chairman Cllr J...

Friends of Linthorpe Cemetery/Nature Reserve - Talk - HMD 2025 Public

Friends of Linthorpe Cemetery/Nature Reserve - Talk - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

On 27th January 2025 at 5.30 p.m. we will be holding a short history talk in the Hebrew Prayer House and brief commemorative event at our 2022 Auschwitz Poem Silver Birch tree (seen in the photograph) to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation...