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.
I am hosting a lunchtime ceremony space in the village hall on Tuesday 27th January 2026 from 1-2 pm. This will include interfaith prayers, sharing of readings, music, and information about HMD and the current genocides in our world. It will clos...
Gateways School Holocaust Memorial assembly, 2026
This is an assembly delivered by Northern Holocaust Education Group. This is to educate about the Holocaust and hear from impacted communities.
Join the Lord Mayor of Leeds for an afternoon of commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day. The civic remembrance event takes place on Sunday 25 January 2026 at 2pm at City Varieties Music Hall Swan Street, Leeds LS1 6LW
The event is free ...
Film Screening "A Real Pain"
Thurs 22 January, 7.30pm
Pay What You Feel
A Real Pain is a 2024 comedy-drama film written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. An international coproduction between Poland and the United States, the fi...
Poems for Holocaust Memorial Day 2026
Holocaust Memorial Day, Tuesday January 27, 2026 10.30 – 12.00
A recital of poems from the Holocaust and other genocides.
On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember the victims of the Nazi re...
Flag Raising with the Mayor of High Peak Borough Council at Buxton Pavilion Gardens for 10am and Glossop Norfolk Square for 12pm.
The Mayor will raise the flag and we will have 2 minute silence and say a few words
Group Assembly delivered by a family member of a holocaust survivor
Feast day celebration for St Maximilian Kolbe
We celebrate the life of St Maximilian Kolbe, a catholic saint who gave his life in the place of another man in Auschwitz. As part of the day the northern holocaust memorial service are giving a ...
Bridging Generations an event held by Staffs Moorlands DC and Leek Town Council
As he has done for several years now Staffordshire Moorlands District Councillor and Communities Portfolio holder Bill Cawley has organised the annual National ...
Holocaust Memorial Service 28th January 2026. 7.30pm to 8.50pm Theme Bridging Generations. Speaker Jeanette Marx from Generation 2 Generation. Supported by local churches in the area.
Throughout the week commencing 26 January, Barnsley College will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day with a series of reflective and educational activities. On Tuesday 27 January, our Personal Development Coordinator and the Welfare and Activities O...
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), 27 January 2026, marks 81 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a day for everyone to remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi persecution, and in subsequent genocides in...
26 January Monday 2026, 1-2pm afternoon talk with 250 Y8 students at Thomas Telford School in Telford. The talk is delivered by a speaker from the organisation Generation 2 Generation.
Learning about the memory gap.
Teaching S3 pupils about why holocaust memory is important to share. Also coming up with ideas on how to continue sharing ideas.
Guest speaker, Lesley Urback will speak in assembly to year 10 pupils about her mother's survival and experience of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.
This will be followed up by Telford and Wrekin Council who will host a civic ceremony i...
Civil Vigil taking place on 27 January 2026: 5.30pm-7.00pm, Cutlers Hall 7-15 Church Street, Sheffield, S1 1HG. The vigil includes Civic speakers, community speakers, faith speakers, schools, music, an exhibition and a survivor story presention fr...
This year’s event will take place at the Clifton Park Bandstand, starting at 12pm and lasting around half an hour. The national theme for 2026 is ‘Bridging Generations’, which highlights how each of us plays a part in passing on the lessons and st...
Hiding the Holocaust: Examining the architecture and topography of terror
How did millions of people ignore the death and suffering taking place during the Holocaust? This talk will examine the architecture and landscape of Nazi concentrati...
Selby Town Council will host its annual Holocaust Memorial Day Service on Tuesday 27 January at 10am, at Selby Abbey.
The service will feature readings by the Mayor of Selby, and a group of local school children, symbolising the passing on ...
As part of Holocaust Memorial Day, we are hosting an event at the Chesterfield Library.
The event will take place on Tuesday 27 January 2026 from 6.30pm to 8pm, and we will be joined remotely by Peter Summerfield BEM and his grandson Harry S...