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Libraries play a key role in communities by providing a cultural hub for everyone to enjoy and a space to ask questions, learn and explore. This Get involved guide gives you examples and practical suggestions for what you can do in your library to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, and how you can learn from the past to shape a better today.
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2026, 'Bridging Generations', is a call-to-action. A reminder that the responsibility of remembrance doesn't end with the survivors - it lives on through their children, their grandchildren and through all of us. This theme encourages us all to engage actively with the past - to listen, to learn and to carry those lessons forward. By doing so, we build a bridge between memory and action, between history and hope for the future.
Our Memorial pages have been created to honour and remember all those who endured the Holocaust, Nazi persecution of other groups, and in the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is appalled that President Putin is deliberately misusing Holocaust language and imagery – this is knowingly distorting the historical record and is antisemitic. He is cynically abusing the term ‘genocide’ to justify Russia’s unprovoked invasion.