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 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: 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 6.30pm, Jarvis Brook Memorial Hall, Crowborough, TN6 2EG
Organised by Crowborough Stand Up to R...
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...
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 ...
All of Y9 and Y10 GCSE History students are attending the talk by a son of Holocaust survivors organised by G2G.
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...
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...