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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.

Public

SAS Branch RBLS - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Royal British Legion Scotland, Saltcoats, Ardrossan and Stevenston Branch

A static remembrance service of the holocaust and other genocides outdoors at Saltcoats war memorial at 11am. Open to the public to participate

Private

Glasgow City Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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.

Public

Unison Renfrewshire - Film Screening - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Private

Dollar Academy - Gen2Gen Speaker - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 28 January 2026,

All of our senior school pupils, aged 11-18, will receive a presentation from one of two speakers from Generation 2 Generation who will be sharing survivor stories on the morning of January 28th.

Private

Torquay Girls’ Grammar School - Talk - HMD 2026

Thursday, 22 January 2026,

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...

Private

Brechin High School - Lesson - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Learning about the memory gap.

Teaching S3 pupils about why holocaust memory is important to share. Also coming up with ideas on how to continue sharing ideas.

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council - Exhibition - HMD 2026 Public

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council - Exhibition - HMD 2026

Friday, 23 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...

Public

Causeway Coast & Glens Museum Services - Exhibition - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Private

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council - Workshop - HMD 2026

Monday, 26 January 2026,

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) - Ceremony - HMD 2026 Public

Alderney Churches Together (ACT) - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Private

Aberdeen Grammar School - Speaker Event - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 28 January 2026,

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...

Private

University of Aberdeen - Gen2Gen Speaker - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 10 February 2026,

Giving a talk to social subjects student teachers on teaching the Holocaust in secondary schools. This willbe followed by a talk from Maria Chamberlain about her family's story.

Private

Dyce Academy - Assembly - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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.

Public

Truro Cathedral - HMD commemoration ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Public

Jersey - HMD Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

As the only British soil occupied by German forces in the Second World War, Jersey remembers the victims of the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and subsequent acts of genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. There is a special focus on the h...