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.
Rochdale Borough Annual Holocaust Memorial Commemoration
A re-dedication of the Holocaust Memorial Stone will take place in the Memorial Gardens. This will be followed by an Act of Commemoration in Rochdale Town Hall. This year we will Comme...
Year 6 received a presentation from Martin Hyman from the Northern Holocaust Education Group about his mother's experience of kindertransport.
Martin shared letters and photographs and family recollections and reflections.
Following ...
All year groups will have an assembly on Holocaust Memorial Day over the course of the week.
Oldham will be commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday 27 January 2025 at:
The Radclyffe School, Hunt Lane, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 0LS. 9:00am – 10:30am.
The event has been organised in partnership with Oldham Council, The Radc...
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 ...
Ceredigion County Council buildings were lit Purple to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. Along with two separate social messages across all our channels.
The Centre for the Movement of People at Aberystwyth University is pleased to host a free programme and exhibition provided by The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London to commemorate H...
A speaker from 'The Northern Holocaust Education Group' will be visiting our school again in January to talk to our children about the Holocaust, sharing his mothers experience and the events that took place involving his mother.
A Commemorative event open to the public, held in one of our Diocesan schools, St Mary's Catholic School, Benton Newcastle upon Tyne. The event was attended by our Bishop Stephen Wright and the Rabbi Aaron Lipse...
Skimstone Arts presents
Turning to Face The Sun
Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library, 33 New Bridge Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX
Thursday 30th January 2025.
Performances at 12 pm and 1.30 pm
As ...
Pupils will attend an assembly on this year's theme 'For a Better Future' and take part in the Holocaust Educational Trust's live survivor webcast.
As part of Newcastle City Council's Holocaust Memorial Day commemorative programme, Professor Ian Biddle tells the story of how we came to understand the term “Holocaust” and where it comes from. Who first coined the term? When did it become a pro...
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...
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...
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,...
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...