Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 is on Wednesday 27 January.

The theme for this year’s event is ‘be the light in the darkness’. It 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.

Be the light in the darkness is an affirmation and a call to action for everyone marking HMD. This theme asks us to consider different kinds of ‘darkness’, for example, identity-based persecution, misinformation, denial of justice; and different ways of ‘being the light’, for example, resistance, acts of solidarity, rescue and illuminating mistruths.

Liberal Judaism’s events include the following:

• Tuesday 26th 2.30pm – Mosaic JACS – The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Music – https://choosemosaic.org/?p=23194
• Tusday 26th 7:30pm – ELELS and SWESRS mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 with a talk from survivor Susie Barnett – please email Sam at administrator@elels.org.uk for joining details
• Wednesday 27th 7pm – Holocaust Memorial Day Trust – UK Commemorative Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 – register here https://www.hmd.org.uk/uk-holocaust-memorial-day-2021-ceremony/
• Wednesday, 27 January, 6:50PM – York – Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Event (organised by City of York Council, University of York, and Holocaust Memorial Day Committee): click here for more information and to sign up.
• Wednesday 27th 7 – 8.30pm – Enfield Council’s annual HMD event “Be the Light in the Darkness”. watch on their YouTube channel from 7pm on 27th and beyond Holocaust Memorial Day itself.
• Wednesday 27th 7-8pm – FPS – Holocaust Memorial Day Event – Professor Danny Greene will talk of the legacy of Washington’s Holocaust Museum and its impact on remembering. He curated the exhibition; Americans and the Holocaust; and has published widely on Holocaust Studies and Memorials. Join on Zoom. Meeting ID: 823 0805 3701 Passcode: WINTER
• Wednesday 27th – 7 – 8:30pm – Kehillah – Holocaust Memorial Day Talk & Tu B’Shvat Evening – Join Dr Anna Hájková, will be presenting and doing a Q&A with us on her new book on the History of Theresienstadt, The Last Ghetto. More info and joining details https://kehillah.org.uk/adult-education/
• Wednesday 27th 8pm – Mosaic – Holocaust Memorial Day Talk by Fred Weil, who’s grandmother Helena was transported to Theresienstadt on January 29th, 1942. Fred Weil’s parents were both refugees from Hitler and came to the UK from Czechoslovakia in 1939. More info: https://choosemosaic.org/?p=23572
• Sunday 31 January 2pm Holocaust Memorial Day Kingston Remembers. Livestreamed from KLS on their YouTube channel.

If your community is running an event not listed above, please send it to ebulletin@liberaljudaism.org.