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.
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...
Join us online only on Wednesday 22 January 2025 from 7-8pm, London, UK time via MS Teams for: A Holocaust Memorial Day presentation by Dalya Wittenberg from Generation 2 Generation (G2G).
Dalya tells her grandmother’s Cilla Rotblat.
We will be reflecting and having an Act of Remembrance for Holocaust Memorial Day during our Communion Service at 10:30am on Sunday 26th January 2025
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Ivor Perl was born Yitzchak Perlmutter in 1932, in the Hungarian town of Mako. Ivor lost his parents and seven brothers and sisters to the Holocaust. In a narrative spanning survival, loss, and resilience, Ivor’s story is told by his yo...
Evensong on the Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday 26th January at 4pm in Halifax Minster, led by The Revd Canon Hilary Barber and Rabbi Douglas Chairing. This is the formal commemoration for the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale.
Author Vanessa Holburn tells the story of the Seilers - a Jewish family from Hungary, who suffered the horrors of Auschwitz and Belsen
Wednesday 29th January 7pm-8pm
Uxbridge Library
Booking essential, visit Discovery Hillingdo...
Yiewsley Library holds a conversation cafe during term times, this is for residents who wish to improve their English conversation skills , This is attended mainly by refugees and asylum seekers as we are based near to Heathrow and a lot of the a...
We have invited a speaker from Generation2Generation to come in to speak to Y9-11 pupils.
St Edmundsbury Cathedral, in conjunction with West Suffolk Council, will be organising a commemorative service on Monday 27 January 2025 at 10.30am at the Memorial Peace Garden within the Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds. The Statement of Commitment...
As part of our year 9 curriculum, our students are currently learning about the Holocaust. This activity will aid in brining awareness and education of the students.
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...
Mon 27 January 2025, 1.15pm
Leeds Cathedral, Cathedral Chambers, Great George Street, Leeds, LS2 8BE
Darius Battiwalla
Leeds City Organist
Holocaust Memorial Day
Felix Mendelssohn - Sonata No 1 in F minor
Fel...
We are marking the 80 yrs since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau & the 30 yrs since the genocide of Bosnia by holding two one hour ceremonies in Wigan & Leigh Town Hall. We will be sharing our 80 Candleholder as well as our Memorial fo...
Join us for an evening of reflection to remember victims of the Holocaust on Wednesday 22 January 2025.
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2025 is For a better Future. There are many things we can all do to create a better future. W...
The London Borough of Barnet Holocaust Memorial Commemoration Service is being held on Sunday 26th January 2025 at 2pm - 3.30pm in the Quadrangle at Middlesex University NW4 4BT.
We have a full program opening with the Mayor of Barnet and th...
To A Child Refugee in a Foreign Land
Grete Rudkin (nee Glauber) was born in Vienna in 1930. In 1939, her mother Elsa sent Grete to England on the Kindertransport, and she began a new life in Enfield under the care of Olive Rudkin
Thi...
Bury is hosting our annual Holocaust Memorial Event on Thursday 30th January.
The event is invite-only to attend in person but the event will be streamed online at www.bury.gov.uk
The event sees young people from local schools narra...
On the 12th February, Year 9 received a talk from Maralyn Turgel from the Generation2Generation organisation who spoke about her father’s story of survival in the Holocaust. In 1942, Marilyn’s father, Sam Gardner was selected to work as slave labo...
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,
Our Community library welcomes Jeanette Marx from Generation2Generation to talk about her mother's experiences in Poland and elsewhere during the Holocaust.
Provided on Zoom at 19:30 Wednesday 29th January.