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.
To mark the 80th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day, Alderman Peel High School in collaboration with the Holocaust charity Learning from the Righteous invites you to their exhibition 'Future Footprints' from 25 January to 22 February at Wells M...
International musical artist TIMNA BRAUER presents a programme of work marking the influence of Jewish music and tradition across global cultures.
A very special event in association with Association of Jewish Refugees and Austrian Cultural...
In November 2024 Space 4 participants worked alongside artist Mary Watson to create a candleholder inspired by the life story of Henry Wuga MBE who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, was evacuated then interned. He settled and married in...
Voices of the Holocaust education programme on the 24th January 2025 which includes and assembly to our Year 9 and School Council. As well as a production/play to the group. This is specifically aimed at Year 9 - who study the Holocaust at part o...
All Y10 students were off timetable for the entire day. During the first hour-long session in the morning, they learned about the historical, geographical and contextual background to the Holocaust.
They then listened to a talk by Eva Clarke...
Whole school assembly Y7-Y11 on Zigi Shipper and Manfred Goldberg
We are having a speaker provided by Generation2Generation provided who will give a presentation and talk, followed by Q&A. This will be for both staff and prisoners. Resources and films will also be available throughout the month.
The assembly was from the organisation Generation 2 Generation. We had two events, one talk from Sam Rogoff and another from Gerry Hahlo.
Vivienne Cato came to our school today to speak to the Year 6 children on the anniversary of the Holocaust (Holocaust Memorial Day) about her Mother's experience of the Holocaust. Vivienne provided a detailed powerpoint with video clips and there ...
Members of Cheltenham Hebrew Congregation, Three Counties Liberal Jewish Community, and Cheltenham Borough Council invite you to join them for the evening, which will include guest speakers on the national theme ‘For a better future’; music; praye...
Year 6 had a speaker to deliver the Holocaust Assembly and life for a Jew in this time. Discussion on the story of Leon Goodman . The class then made boxes for their candle to the home and light in the evening.
School assembly followed by making doves with a message of hope for the future. These are then displayed in school
Pupils all have a candle to display and light at home in the evening.
Our school community were privileged to have Emily visit us and share her mother’s amazing story with us. We learned of the horrific situation people faced during this time but equally of the bravery of others, without who survival would have been...
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 ...
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...
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...