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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.

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Bishop Luffa School - (Tea)Lights in the Darkness - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

All pupils get a tealight, and write a word related to hope/a better future/remembrance/commemoration on the base. These are then used to create a giant Star of David, which the whole School will be able to view. This will be accompanied by a sl...

Private

Holocaust Education Programme - Richmond Synagogue - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

As in the previous years we are holding half day sessions for all the year 9 students of the Richmond secondary schools. These sessions include a speaker (survivor or survivor's child), several films and a workshop in which the students are divid...

Public

London Borough of Barnet - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

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...

Garden Suburb Community Library - G2G speaker - HMD 2025 Public

Garden Suburb Community Library - G2G speaker - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 29 January 2025,

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.

Public

St Mary-at-Finchley Parish Church - Talk - HMD 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025,

Our church of St Mary-at-Finchley CE and faith community has been commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day for the past two decades. This year we honour a very special anniversary, 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Guest speaker Emi...

Westgate Evangelical Chapel - Memorial Service - HMD 2025 Public

Westgate Evangelical Chapel - Memorial Service - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

A church service with prayers, reflections and presentation of this year's theme.
We will vow "Never Again"
We will pray and reflect on 80 years since the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
We will consider our own response to evi...

Public

Hammersmith and Fulham Council - Talk - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.

This year's theme is "for a better future".

Our event in Ha...

Private

Finchley Reform Synagogue - Educational Workshop - HMD 2025

Monday, 3 February 2025,

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...

Nottingham Trent University - Ceremony - HMD 2025 Private

Nottingham Trent University - Ceremony - HMD 2025

Monday, 27 January 2025,

This event will have reflections from the Jewish Societies (JSOCs) of both Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and University of Nottingham (UoN), we will have a number of keynote speakers from Jewish Community, UoN and NTU. There will also be cand...

Private

East Barnet School - Talk and educational workshops - HMD 2025

Thursday, 6 February 2025,

Thursday 6 Feb - All day (for over 200 Year 9 students)
Begins with Second Generation speaker (Gloria Silver) talking about her father's experience as a survivor.
Followed by a carousel of lessons on the topic of the Holocaust from RE,...

Barnet Libraries - Presentation by Dalya Wittenberg - HMD 2025 Public

Barnet Libraries - Presentation by Dalya Wittenberg - HMD 2025

Wednesday, 22 January 2025,

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.