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.
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
Tuesday 27th January 2026 at 11am, Garden of Remembrance, Folkestone
An annual service providing members of the community the opportunity to remember people murdered in the Holocaust and in subsequent genocides with an educational element f...
Local schools and community groups have contributed to the annual Holocaust commemoration library exhibition which is open from Monday 19th January until Saturday 31st January in Bangor Carnegie library.
Holocaust commemoration talk
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
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A screening of the film 'The last Days'
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...