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
All are welcome to join us at the Parcels Office, Lowestoft Railway Station, for a service of reflections and poems, culminating in the laying of wreaths. Included as part of the event is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Today, we held a Holocaust Memorial Service at Harwich Quay where in place is a statue dedicated to the Kindergarten Transport This is a focal point for Harwich's Holocaust Memorial Day events. As in previous years, Harwich Town Council acted as f...
A commemorative service and refreshments
Holmewood House school will be welcoming two speakers to the school, Anita Peleg and Emily Cass. This will take place in our school theatre from 2pm - 430pm on Thursday 5th February, to mark World Holocaust Day. Our Year 8 pupils will be attend...
Never Again - Holocaust Memorial Day meeting
Speakers include Gaby Weiner, author of Tales of Loving and Leaving
Friday 30 January 7pm, Jarvis Brook Memorial Hall, Crowborough, TN6 2EG
Organised by Crowborough Stand Up to Raci...
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.
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...
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...
Abbey School, Faversham, Talk by Peter Kammerling, years 7-13
Peter Kammerling is going to present the mememories of his parents during the scond world war and the Holocaust.
This will be an online presentation, delivered through team...
All of Y9 and Y10 GCSE History students are attending the talk by a son of Holocaust survivors organised by G2G.
Eastbourne's Holocaust Memorial Day Event 2026
Eastbourne’s Holocaust Memorial Day event, organised by dedicated local volunteers, will take place on Tuesday 27 January 2026 at 6.30pm at the Welcome Building (next to the Congress Theatre), ...
Alderney Churches Together (ACT) HMD Commemoration 2026
27th January 11:00am - 11:30 Alderney Churches Together (ACT) welcomes all members of the Alderney Community to a short ecumenical service to commemorate HMD. This year the theme 'Bri...
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...
Students are taking part in assemblies focusing on Lily Ebert
As the only British soil occupied by German forces in the Second World War, Jersey remembers the victims of the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and subsequent acts of genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. There is a special focus on the h...
An installation of origami butterflies went on display in the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum Community Space to mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme, Bridging Generations.
The theme underscores the importance of connecting people ac...
Wednesday 28 January 2026 18.00-19.15
Organised by the Durham University Jewish Society, Durham University Chaplaincy Network and Stephenson College, Durham University
Talk delivered by Vivienne Cato (Northern Holocaust Education Group...
This year we ran a series of activites across the week leading up to HMD. We started with welcoming Steven Frank to talk in our HQ. This was an in person and online event and attracted over 180 people in total. The recording of the talk was shared...