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.
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...
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...
Artists
Violin: Alexandra Soumm, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Dana Zemtsov
Cello: Bartholomew LaFollette
Piano: Katya Apekisheva, Anthony Hewitt
Oboe: Julian Scott
Theremi...
A unique installation created by a member of the Jewish community, representing the mass transportation of the Pardubice Jews to Terezin and onward to Auschwitz.
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...
Thetford Town Council is lighting up a town centre shop front, along with an information display and electronic candles to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
A service to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 will be held at Powis Hall, Main Arts Building, College Road, in Bangor on Monday, 27 January, from 10:30 am to 11:30 am.
The theme of this year’s service is ‘For a Better Future’ and wil...
HMD Lecture by Susanna Rosenberg (booked through Generation2Generation)
Our Unitarian chaplain, Rev Dr Claire MacDonald, along with Wendy Fidler MBE will lead an event for Holocaust Memorial Day. The Harris Manchester College choir will sing Mark Miller's I Believe.
The Choir of Worcester College sing their regular service of Choral Evensong. The Rt Revd Steven Croft, Bishop of Oxford, will preach with Holocaust Memorial Day as his focus. The service will feature psalms of lament and hope, and an anthem by No...
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...
St Peter’s Church in Sheringham will be holding a special service to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on the 27th of January at 7pm.
The service will consist of a survivors story, prayers from both the Church of England and the Council for Chri...