Holocaust Memorial Day
The UK Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) will be streamed live for the first time at 7pm on Wednesday 27th January. If you wish to join the ceremony online, you need to register in advance here. Holocaust Memorial Day enables us to remember – for a purpose. It gives us a responsibility to work for a safer, better, future for everyone. Everyone can step up and use their talents to tackle prejudice, discrimination and intolerance wherever we encounter them.
Resources are available to explore the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 “Be the light in the darkness” which can be found here. The remembrance of the Holocaust encourages everyone to reflect on the depths humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities resisted that darkness to ‘be the light’ before, during and after genocide.
Click here to download the digital programme
After the ceremony the Trust are asking households across the UK to light a candle and put it in their window at 8pm (if you are able to do so safely) to:
• remember those who were murdered for who they were
• stand against prejudice and hatred today.
Upload a photo of your candle on social media, using the hashtags #HolocaustMemorialDay #LightTheDarkness
