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 2026. Enter your post code to find activities near you - those marked 'public' are open to everyone.
Join us at The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, to celebrate the legacy of Helen Lewis: dancer, choreographer, and Holocaust survivor who became a pioneering figure in contemporary dance in Northern Ireland.
At this event:
- Hear about...
As part of Holocaust Memorial Day 2026, Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council is delivering a connected programme of learning and reflection, aligned to this year’s theme “Bridging Generations.”
A number of primary and post-primary schools...
At the University of Exeter, the Jewish Society will be hosting a public Exhibition at Exeter University Forum all day on the 29th and 30th January.
The display will showcase art in repsonse to the Holocaust, looking at pain through the eyes...
Talks and seminars for schools will be taking place in Exeter on Tues 27th Jan 2026:
Kindertransport
Porrajmos film- Gypsy Holocaust
Art of Samuel Bak
HMD Opening Ceremony and Survivor Talk
Exeter Cathedral
10-11.15am
27th January 2026
Dignitaries and school pupils will light candles
A second generation survivor will be speaking about Kindertransport
Glasgow City Council Schools HMD Event
A range of speakers will address an audience of around 400 young people and education staff.
Activities will include speeches, poetry, music, readings, dance and a candles ceremony.
We are proud to hold a commemoration event in honour of Jane Haining, Scotland's Heroine, captured and killed at Auschwitz Birkenau in 1944.
Join us and Jane's family for a special showing of a newly commissioned film by Unison Renfrewshire...
A Holocaust talk by a Generation2Generation speaker on 22nd January, as part of my Next Steps Project for the Lessons from Auschwitz project organized by the Holocaust Educational Trust.
It will run at lunchtime from approximately 12:45 til...
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A screening of the film 'The last Days'
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council will light up it's Civic Headquarters in purple to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January 2026.
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council’s Good Relations Team is inviting people to attend their Holocaust Memorial Day exhibition, hosted this year by Coleraine library.
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on January 27th each year, coinci...
Discrimination to Genocide - A Holocaust Memorial Exhibition
Discrimination to Genocide - A Holocaust Memorial Exhibition opens on Tuesday 27th January 2026 in Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre. The exhibition examines the devastating c...
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council HMD Schools Seminar 2026
Seymour Kelly (Generation 2 Generation) will share the Story of his mother Lushka Kelly (née Klapholz) 1923-2003.
Seymour’s presentation intersperses Lushka’s own testimon...
Alderney Churches Together (ACT) HMD Commemoration 2026
27th January 11:00am - 11:30 Alderney Churches Together (ACT) welcomes all members of the Alderney Community to a short ecumenical service to commemorate HMD. This year the theme 'Bri...
In light of the Holocaust Memorial Day theme for 2026, ‘Bridging Generations’, they have the privilege of attending a talk and Q and A session with Gillian Field, daughter of Holocaust survivors Henry Wuga and Ingrid Wolff. Gillian’s parents met i...
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council HMD Schools Seminar 2026
Seymour Kelly (Generation 2 Generation) will share the Story of his mother Lushka Kelly (née Klapholz) 1923-2003.
Seymour’s presentation intersperses Lushka’s own testimon...
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council HMD Seminar 2026
Seymour Kelly (Generation 2 Generation) will share the Story of his mother Lushka Kelly (née Klapholz) 1923-2003.
Seymour’s presentation intersperses Lushka’s own testimony with p...
Starting from 27th January, we will hold assemblies every day (one for each year group) of that week. S2 pupils who have been studying the Holocaust will lead the assemblies with the help of our Senior pupils - Equalities Ambassadors.
The event is on Holocaust Memorial Day, Tuesday 27 January 2026. The service commences at 12noon and will run to 1.15pm. It will include readings and reflections, through different media, from people affected by the Holocaust and genocide. Every...
Aberdeen Interfaith will hold a book discussion on Thursday 29 January from 7-8.30pm on line. Book your space for zoom link on [email protected]