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.
The young people in HMP Polmont are writing a radio show to be broadcast to the full prison population to commemorate HMD. They are using the theme of Bridging Generations to discuss why they think it's important to for younger and future generati...
Pupils in S1 have been delivering assemblies and will do one every day on Monday 26th January 2026 - Friday 30th January 2026.
These assemblies were created by the pupils, educating the whole school about the history of the Holocaust, and ...
On Holocaust Memorial Day we commemorate the six million Jews, murdered during the Holocaust alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution, including Poles, Roma and Sinti people, disabled people, LGBT+ people, Black people,...
The service will feature music and readings from local schools, members of the local community and council, local authorities, the Students Union, The Chaplaincy Team, and University Staff.
The Service will take place on the 27th January 20...
All of our senior school pupils, aged 11-18, will receive a presentation from one of two speakers from Generation 2 Generation who will be sharing survivor stories on the morning of January 28th.
speaker from generation2generation (Gloria Sliver) coming to speak to our S4 students (16 years), so about 200 pupils about how her dad escaped the Holocaust.
Westmorland and Furness Council will mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) by lighting up key buildings.
This is part of the national #LightTheDarkness initiative led by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT).
On Tuesday (27...
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...
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Holocaust Memorial Day Event
1940s DANCE FOR PEACE - Tuesday 27th January
7.30pm Swing Jive & 9pm Strolls
This event is to mark Holocaust Memorial Day - notably the genocides and persecutions of the 1940s by the Nazis of Jewi...
Service in the Memorial Garden at Lancaster Town Hall at 6.00pm followed by refreshments in the Town Hall.
St Annes Hebrew Congregation, HMD 2026
Commemoration of Holocaust, organised by ourselves for last 8 years following Blackpool Council's decision to no longer hold the event.
The event is being held with the support of NHEG, Ernie Hun...
Genocide never just happens. There is always a set of circumstances which occur or which are created to build the climate in which genocide can take place. To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, we presented 10 contemporary objects from The Holoca...
Our Rights Respecting Steering group are presenting information to all students from S1 to S6 by organising an assembly. They will impart information and we are hoping that our school captain will talk about the theme this year of Building Bridges...
Earth Moves Holocaust Memorial Day 2026
Earth Moves planted a tree in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust, we will assemble at the tree for a moment of silence and light the candle as we remember the six million Jewish men, women an...
The historic Preston Market canopy will be lit purple on the evening of Tuesday 27 January.
A commemorative service will take place at St Georges Church Preston.
🗓️ Tuesday 27 January, 12pm
📍 St George The Martyr Church, George's Road (off Lune Street), Preston PR1 2NP
Alsop High School - Friendship that survived the Death March: Manfred &
Students from Alsop High School, Liverpool will lead the schools presentation at the HMD Civic Service at Liverpool Town Hall.
The students will lay a wreat...
Our Holocaust Memorial Day event will take place in our Mann island location, open to all employees, it will take place 13:00-13:30, the running order is seen below:
13:00 – Welcome
Delivered by Mayor Steve Rotheram
13:05 – Praye...
Pupils in years 9, 11, 12 and 13 will hear from a Holocaust Speaker.