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.
Join this free webinar from the Historical Association to learn about the work of two Holocaust Education charities, Generation 2 Generation (G2G) and Northern Holocaust Education Group (NHEG), which provide accredited speakers to schools and othe...
Sudan has been at war for longer than it has been at peace. The Sudanese people have been plagued by genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes since independence in 1956.
In 2003, a civil war began in the region between the sedent...
Bristol City Council City Hall building light up in Purple for Holocaust Memorial Day. Lights will be on from dusk until Midnight.
Pascal Theatre Company returns to Burgh House in January for Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 with a staged reading of a play addressing issues of adultery, guilt and survival, contrasting a conventional marriage and domesticity against free love.
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Release of music in partnership with Help Musicians to mark the 80th anniversairy of the liberation of the camp, 'The Liberation of Auschwitz' for strings, piano and organ.
Now on Spotify and all major streaming platforms.
Talk from a descendent of Holocaust survivors to two year 9 groups.
Martin Stern, a survivor who is a member of Muswell Hill shul, spoke to 300 students from Fortismere School. W invite Y9 to our shul each year and provide a talk for them,
PRESS RELEASE 30 January 2025
BROMLEY LIBRARIAN SHARES POIGNANT FAMILY HISTORY FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
This week, the Children’s Team i...
Our workshops will take place on 3 Feb, 4 Feb, 5 Feb, 10 Feb, 11 Feb and 12 Feb - two workshops each day (9:30am to 12 noon and 1pm to 3:30pm) at Finchley Reform Synagogue. They are free 2.5 hour workshops for year 9 students at local secondary s...
HMS Belfast will be taking part in the Light the Darkness national moment on 27 January from 8pm.
On Jan 16th at 3.00-4.30pm a visitor from Generation 2 Generation will be speaking with a group of our students about their family story of Holocaust experience.
In addition, during the week of January 27 -31 all of our approximately 1500 st...
A closed and intimate ceremony with a range of speeches, candles lightings, poem readings and reflections about holocaust memorial day & subsequent genocides. A holocaust survivor to be in attendance to also talk about her experience. post eve...
Please book now for Sunday, 26th January 8pm at Muswell Hill Synagogue. Nearly Shabbat on the Hill for HMD - John Schlapobersky "When they came for me". While a student in South Africa in 1969 John was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured,...
The Mayor of Hertsmere will be holding a Holocaust Memorial Day Event at Hertswood Academy, Borehamwood on 27th January starting at 6pm.
Anita Peleg shared the story of her mother Naomi Blake a survivor from Hungary/Ukraine.
Students are reading the book Once. Many of them do not have much prior knowledge of the events of the Holocaust. Students are year 7. Students will develop a deeper understanding of the history and a compassionate appreciation of the Jewish comm...
The Jewish Network are holding an event at the office at lunchtime on the 5th February 2025 to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. In collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Trust, we are proud and honoured to be welcoming a survivor speaker to our...
Thursday 6 Feb - All day (for over 200 Year 9 students)
Begins with Second Generation speaker (Gloria Silver) talking about her father's experience as a survivor.
Followed by a carousel of lessons on the topic of the Holocaust from RE,...
This the St Albans City and District Council Civic event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day; it is being hosted by St Albans Masorti Synagogue. It comprises an evening of testimony from 2nd generation survivors, but also includes the testimony of Kitt...
Bernice Krantz talking about Toby Biber's story for National Holocaust week as part of the Engaging Minds Series for the sixth form. It is a one hour slot, divided between a presentation and talk then the students get to ask questions and they en...