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 Salisbury City Council at The Guildhall on Tuesday 27 January 2026, as Salisbury marks Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD).
HMD takes place annually on 27 January. The international day remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holoc...
The Medway Holocaust Memorial Day Event will take place at Rochester Cathedral on Tuesday 27 January 2026 at 5:30pm, with the help of students from local schools and Medway Youth Council, together with Kent Police, MIFA and representatives of the ...
Our annual HMD Jaw (Bedalian for assembly) will take place for all senior school students on Wednesday 28th January from 5-6pm. We have a speaker from G2G for the fourth successive year.
This year we will commemorate all those who were persecuted and lost their lives during the Holocaust. We will once again come together as a school community to stand up and speak
out against hatred and prejudice today.
Embley School in Hampshire will continue our annual commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day.
Pupils will attend a whole school assembly aiming to raise awareness, focused on the theme of 'Bridging Generations'.
This will be built upo...
A service of commemoration at Horsham Unitarian Church where all are welcome.
The Unitarian Church in Horsham, West Sussex, will be holding a Holocaust Remembrance service for its congregation and all comers at 5.00pm on the afternoon of the 27th. This is a repeat of a similar service held in 2025, which attracted a number ...
Maidstone Borough Council will light up our Town Hall purple for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) at 8pm on Tuesday 27 January 2026, as part of national Light the Darkness moment.
On January 27 2026 Southampton will mark the UK’s national Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day (HMD) with a commemorative event organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations (University of Southampton) on behalf of...
Abbey School, Faversham, Talk by Peter Kammerling, years 7-13
Peter Kammerling is going to present the mememories of his parents during the scond world war and the Holocaust.
This will be an online presentation, delivered through team...
A commemorative service and refreshments
HAVANT BOROUGH COUNCIL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COMMEMORATION 2026
Havant Borough Council are holding a short non-denominational service of commemoration at the Public Service Plaza, Civic Centre Road, Havant at 11.00am on Tuesday 27th January 20...
Never Again - Holocaust Memorial Day meeting
Speakers include Gaby Weiner, author of Tales of Loving and Leaving
Friday 30 January 7pm, Jarvis Brook Memorial Hall, Crowborough, TN6 2EG
Organised by Crowborough Stand Up to Raci...
Interactive activity for the whole student community to raise awareness and importance of remembering.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and Birkenau and the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust selected 80 UK organisations to participate in the “80 candles for 80 years” initiative....
Free event open to all (retiring collection).
Bridging Generations: HMD in Lewes
John Wood will present a 40-minute talk with archival photos and testimony about his father Leonard Berney, who was one of the first of the Allied troops...
Auchinleck Primary remember the Holocaust 2026
Throughout January 2026 our 21 P6 and 25 P7 pupils will study the years between 1933 and 1940 to learn how Jews were persecuted by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime through the implementation of the N...
January 27th 2026
12.30am to 5.00pm.
You are very welcome to join us on Holocaust Memorial Day as we hold in our thoughts all the people who were killed in the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and all the people killed in many genocides since...
Church service (Christian) to commemorate HMD. Sunday 25th Jan 2026 at 3.00 - 4.00pm. Limited seating.
Our annual commemorative event is taking place on Sunday 25th January, 2.00- 4.30.
We always start our event the same way with 7 adults lighting 7 candles and 7 young people reading from the Holocaust statement of commitment
Using the ...