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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.

Lowestoft Town Council - Commemoration Service - HMD 2026 Public

Lowestoft Town Council - Commemoration Service - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Lowestoft Commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day 2026

Join us at Kensington Gardens at 1:30pm for a reflective event including short readings from local Primary School Students.  The event will include laying coloured flowers at the Holocaust ...

Surrey History Centre - Social Media Activity - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Surrey History Centre: A Forgotten Scrapbook

Discover the early artistic talents of a German-Jewish refugee at Stoatley Rough School in Haslemere who became a renowned children's book illustrator in New York. Take a look at our webpage that...

Guildford School of Acting - Talk - HMD 2026 Public

Guildford School of Acting - Talk - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 28 January 2026,

Holocaust Memory and Theatre with Professor Erika Hughes

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2026, GSA welcomes Erika Hughes, writer, director, and Professor of Performance & Society, for a talk exploring how theatre has been one of the most...

Public

Southend City Council - Ceremony, Exhibition - HMD 2026

Sunday, 25 January 2026,

Southend City Council Service of Commemoration 2026

Service of Commemoration on Sunday 25th January, 3pm at The Civic Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 6ER. The service is open to the public and will include music, poetry, students presentation...

Salisbury City Council - Memorial Service - HMD 2026 Public

Salisbury City Council - Memorial Service - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Public

Medway HMD Planning Committee - Commemoration Service - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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 ...

Private

Embley School - Assembly - HMD 2026

Monday, 19 January 2026,

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...

Parkes Institute, University of Southampton - Ceremony - HMD 2026 Public

Parkes Institute, University of Southampton - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Public

Havant Borough Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Crowborough Stand Up to Racism - Talk - HMD 2026 Public

Crowborough Stand Up to Racism - Talk - HMD 2026

Friday, 30 January 2026,

Never Again - Holocaust Memorial Day meeting

Speakers include Gaby Weiner, author of Tales of Loving and Leaving

Friday 30 January 6.30pm, Jarvis Brook Memorial Hall, Crowborough, TN6 2EG

Organised by Crowborough Stand Up to R...

Public

Taunton Library - 80 candles for 80 years - HMD 2026

Monday, 5 January 2026,

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....

Public

Lewes Holocaust Memorial Day Group - Talk - HMD 2026

Saturday, 24 January 2026,

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...

Private

Auchinleck Primary School - Lesson - HMD 2026

Friday, 9 January 2026,

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...

Private

Brighton Quakers - Light a Candle of Hope Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Balancing in Freedom - Arts Activity - HMD 2026 Public

Balancing in Freedom - Arts Activity - HMD 2026

Thursday, 29 January 2026,

Balancing in Freedom

Drawing on his family’s Holocaust history, his own experience of disability, and Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom, Iddo Oberski weaves a deeply personal journey with his onstage puppet counterpart, Svjetlana, a di...

Public

Folkestone Town Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...