This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme is the Fragility of Freedom, an exploration into what freedom means to different people and how it cannot be taken for granted. Find out how you can get involved on 27th January.
Established in 2000, Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) marks the anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz. On this day it is important to remember and to learn about victims of the Holocaust, lest we forget the universal pain and suffering it caused. See how you can be involved in community events.
HMD Webcast | Holocaust Educational Trust | 23rd January
Hosted by the Holocaust Educational Trust, its annual HMD webcast invites individuals and schools alike together online to hear a Holocaust survivor share their story.
Send in your questions to make this an interactive and meaningful way to mark your remembrance this Holocaust Memorial Day. Register on its website to receive log-in access.
Het.org.uk
Salford City Council Memorial Day Event | Swinton Masonic Hall
Salford | 24th January
Salford City Council is hosting a Holocaust Memorial Day Event at Swinton Masonic Hall this year for an evening of community, readings, music, and acts of remembrance focused on The Fragility of Freedom theme. Acccess from 6.15pm.
Hmd.org.uk/activity/salford
Memorial Day Event 2024 | Robert Bolt Theatre | Trafford | 25th January
The event will begin at 1pm at the Robert Bolt Theatre, more information will be released on the JRC website on its event calendar.
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HMD 2024UK Ceremony Curated Moments | 27th January | 7:30pm
Register your virtual attendance on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s website where you will be sent a link to watch the ceremony in advance of the event. The HMD ceremony takes place in London and includes a combination of live music, statements from the Mayor of London and supporting charities such as the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and the Holocaust Educational Trust, as well as showing survivor testimonials and a reflection from religious leaders.
HMD.org.uk
Light the Darkness | 27th January | 8pm
Something you can do from home is to light the darkness by lighting a candle in your window at 8pm to show solidarity and remembrance for all to see. Special commemorative HMD candles can be ordered off its website or you can share your Holocaust Memorial Day candle with the nation by uploading
a picture to social media using the hashtags #HolocaustMemorialDay and #LightTheDarkness
HMD.org.uk
Holocaust Centre North | University of Huddersfield | Ongoing
The Holocaust Centre North was founded in the mid-1990s by survivors in Leeds with the aim of providing friendship and community support It has had a permanent home on the University of Huddersfield campus since 2018. Its archive contains the collections of around 120 families who rebuilt their lives in the North of England following persecution and genocide. The stories preserved are ones of discrimination, displacement, migration, forced labour, making new lives and difficult decisions. The centre works to ensure that the atrocities of Nazi persecution are never forgotten.
Hcn.org.uk