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.
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...
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...
From early evening (5pm approx), Middlesbrough Tower at Teesside University's Middlesbrough Campus will be illuminated in purple to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
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...
Civic service at King's Lynn Town Hall with the Borough Mayor and representatives of different faiths.
Readings, school choir and candle lighting
Schoolchildren at Ludlow Primary School will plant a memorial cherry tree on the morning of Holocaust Memorial Day, Monday 27th January. This will involve South Shropshire Interfaith Forum, the school itself, and the local Shropshire Council counc...
On 27th January 2025, Scripthaven bookshop, 106 High Street, Worcester will be hosting a poetry evening to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The event starts at 19:00- all are welcome. There is no charge, but we will be inviting donations for the Holoc...
Victor Klemperer was a Professor of Romance Languages at the Techinical University of Dresden. Born to a Jewish family, he converted to Protestantism and married Eva Schlemmer, an 'Aryan'. Klemperer kept a secret diary between 1933 and 1945 record...
A public HMD event on Monday 27th January 2025 from 10.30-12.00.
Speaker, Natalie Cumming, will talk about her aunt, a violinist in Auschwitz.
Local schools will be taking part providing readings, music, and an art exhibition.
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Westmorland and Furness Council will mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) by lighting up buildings and flying the HMD flag.
On Monday 27 January, Barrow and Kendal Town Halls will be illuminated in purple, while the HMD flag will f...
6pm - Tolling tenor bell half-muffled, i.e. alternately muffled (in memory) and open/loud and bright (prayer for better future).
General public can hear the bell being tolled across the local community, especially closer to the church.
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80 years on from the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, On HMD 27-01-2025 Fishburn Parish Council will light The Queen Elizabeth II Beacon of Hope at 7pm for 20/30 minutes with a short reading, Front Street, Fishburn TS21 4AA
The Anne Frank Trust, Cumbria and Chetwynde Secondary school, Barrow are hosting a commemoration assembly on Monday 27th January - 2:30pm-3:30pm. This will be led by Anne Frank student ambassadors and other students from the Secondary and Primary ...
A celebration of Mass (the Eucharist, Holy Communion) with prayers for peace.
Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025: For a Better Future
The Higgins Bedford Entrance Foyer: 25 Jan – 2 February 2025, Free Entry
This Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on
27 January marks the 80th anniversary of<...
Church service of prayer and reflection to focus mainly on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the national theme "For a Better Future".
Music will be provided by Sheila Morbey (violin), Geoff Gordon (piano), an...
Ysgol Eirias is hosting along with other schools a Holocaust survivor.
A ceremony with music, readings and testimony, a period of silence during which 80 candles were laid to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. The vent closed with all sharing the Stockholm Statement of Commitment.
It woul...
The annual Holocaust Memorial Day event has been moved to the Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Saxon Gate, Milton Keynes MK9 2ES in view of the weather forecast for Sunday.
The Sunday 26 January 2025 event will still start at 3 p.m. as adve...
My youth work team did some research into lgbt people who were impacted by the holocaust. we then created social media posts for educational purposes. We did one for gay people and one for trans people