Events for Holocaust Memorial Day, January 2022
The national theme this year is One Day: to find out more about this visit the HMD Trust website  
We may have to cancel these events in the event of lockdown, or run them online via Zoom. Please keep checking this website for further news. 
The organisers would like to thank Lewes Town Council, Lewes District Council and Depot cinema for their generous support. 


All January: Lewes Library, Styles Field, Lewes 
Lewes Library will be displaying books and DVDs about the Holocaust as well as other genocides and conflicts, for loan. 
Thursday 26 January, 6–6.45pm
Outside on Cliffe Bridge, Lewes. Free; no booking necessary 
Lantern-lit vigil for Holocaust Memorial Day 
Readings, short speeches and moments of quiet contemplation. Bring a lantern and wrap up warm: we’ll keep going in spite of the weather. 

Thursday 27 January, 8pm
Depot cinema, Pinwell Road, Lewes. £9 adult/£4 under 25 and those on benefit 
Film: Night will Fall (15) (2014, 75 minutes, in English)
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45 , their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Directed by André Singer, using material from footage directed by Alfred Hitchcock but unseen for nearly 70 years. 
Preceded by an introductory talk for Holocaust Memorial Day. 

Saturday 29 January, 5-7pm
Presentations for Holocaust Memorial Day: One Day
St John sub Castro Church, Lewes. Free, no booking required
Two children of Holocaust survivors and the daughter of a family that fled the Armenian genocide talk about one day that was significant in their family's story. With an introduction by the Mayor of Lewes and closing speech by the Leader of Lewes District Council.

Sunday 29 January, Lewes Depot, Pinwell Road, Lewes, 2pm
Depot cinema, Pinwell Road, Lewes. £9 adult/£4 under 25 and those on benefit 
Film: Au revoir les enfants (PG) (1987, 104 minutes, in French with subtitles). 
Based on wartime events in the childhood of director Louis Malle, this highly acclaimed film beautifully recreates life in 1944 in a boarding school in Nazi-occupied France. Two pupils form a friendship when one of the two realises that the other is a Jewish boy being sheltered in the school by a compassionate priest. “Every scene is masterful” (The Guardian); Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Awards. 

Sunday 29 January, Lewes Depot (Studio), Pinwell Road, Lewes, 8–9pm
Depot cinema, Pinwell Road, Lewes. Free, no booking necessary
Readings and music: ‘One Day’ 
Local poets, musicians and others gather with Adrienne Thomas to reflect on the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2022.