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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.

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Labour Students - Remembrance Service - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 4 February 2026,

Labour Students HMD Event in Parliament

6 pm-7:30 pm in Parliament
Labour Students and Lord Mike Katz

We will be hearing a series of testimonies and poetry readings, as well as having reflections from speakers on this year's th...

Public

Jewish Greens - Gen2Gen Speaker - HMD 2026

Sunday, 18 January 2026,

Jewish Greens HMD Event January 2026

Sunday, January 18th, 6pm - 7pm
As in previous years, Jewish Greens organised a Holocaust Memorial Day event with a speaker from Generation 2 Generation (G2G).
Angela Strach told her father's...

Holocaust Research Institute - Film Screening - HMD 2026 Public

Holocaust Research Institute - Film Screening - HMD 2026

Thursday, 29 January 2026,

"Bridging Generations" is a Documentary Film Series that commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day 2026. It is coordinated by Dr Simone Gigliotti from the Holocaust Research Institute in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London,...

Private

Mastercard - HMD Commemoration - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 28 January 2026,

Mastercard has a Jewish employee group who have decided to mark HMD with speakers - Jacques Weisser and John Wood, who will present to colleagues on their experiences.

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Schroders - Light the Darkness - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

We will be taking photos of four of us lighting candles for HMD and sharing some content and the photos on screens around our London office and our our intranet. The people lighting candles will be sharing what the Holocaust means to them and a p...

Spanish & Portuguese Sephardi Community - Ceremony - HMD 2026 Public

Spanish & Portuguese Sephardi Community - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

The service will be held at Bevis Marks Synagogue, City of London, between 12:30 - 13:00 on the 27th Jan .It will be a short service ,where prayers and memorial candles will be lit. We are inviting officials from the City and City Workers to atte...

Austrian Cultural Forum - Discussion, Exhibition - HMD 2026 Private

Austrian Cultural Forum - Discussion, Exhibition - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 21 January 2026,

Arc of History Panel Discussion: Bridging Generations

Wed 21 Jan 2026 7:00PM

On the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 and 30 years of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, the Austrian ...

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Newport City Council - Commemoration Service - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

A service to be held at Newport Cathedral.
The service will predominantly be led by school pupils with a reading undertaken by The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Newport.
Pupils from a local Comprehensive school will undertake two other...

Westminster Synagogue - Film Screening - HMD 2026 Public

Westminster Synagogue - Film Screening - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Join us on Tuesday 27th January as we, along with the world, mark Holocaust Memorial Day. This year we will commemorate this important day with a screening of The Commandant’s Shadow, which follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf H...

Bristol HMD Committee - Talk - HMD 2026 Public

Bristol HMD Committee - Talk - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Commemorating 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, along with millions of others who died under Nazi persecution & other genocides

The overall theme of the 2026 HMD is "Bridging Generations". The Bristol commemoration will focu...

Deutsche Schule London - Survivor speaker - HMD 2026 Public

Deutsche Schule London - Survivor speaker - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 21 January 2026,

Eva Clarke was born during the last weeks of the Second World War in the concentration camp Mauthausen. Listen to her story.
We are fortunate and grateful to have Eva Clarke with us to talk about her difficult start into life during the last...

University of Essex - Talk, Lesson - HMD 2026 Public

University of Essex - Talk, Lesson - HMD 2026

Thursday, 29 January 2026,

The Roma and Sinti Holocaust, 81 Years On: Memory, Representation, and the Struggle for Recognition

Dr Justyna Matkowska, University at Albany, State University of New York

Dr Matkowska will discuss the Roma and Sinti Holocaust, whic...

University of Essex - Walk - HMD 2026 Public

University of Essex - Walk - HMD 2026

Thursday, 29 January 2026,

Join us as we walk together across the Colchester campus with lanterns, crafted by the University of Essex Origami Society or bring your own (no naked flames).

The procession will stop for a moment and will finish with a gathering for a m...

University of Essex - Talk - HMD 2026 Public

University of Essex - Talk - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 28 January 2026,

Knowing, remembering, and forgetting the Holocaust in 2026

Dr Andy Pearce, Director, UCL Centre for Holocaust Education and Associate Professor in Holocaust and History Education

Organised by the Centre for Public History at the Uni...

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University of Essex - Remembrance Event - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Each year on Holocaust Memorial Day, we come together to remember the victims of the Holocaust and other genocides with the ‘Reading of Names’.

We are asking our University community to take part in this act of remembrance, reading names i...