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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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Causeway Coast & Glens Museum Services - Exhibition - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Discrimination to Genocide - A Holocaust Memorial Exhibition

Discrimination to Genocide - A Holocaust Memorial Exhibition opens on Tuesday 27th January 2026 in Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre. The exhibition examines the devastating c...

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council - Exhibition - HMD 2026 Public

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council - Exhibition - HMD 2026

Friday, 23 January 2026,

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council’s Good Relations Team is inviting people to attend their Holocaust Memorial Day exhibition, hosted this year by Coleraine library.

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on January 27th each year, coinci...

Public

Bright Umbrella Theatre - Arts, Film screening - HMD 2026

Friday, 27 February 2026,

TEREZÍN (Film Screening) — a play by Anna Smulowitz. Bright Umbrella’s Sanctuary Theatre. Tuesday 27 February 19.00. Admission free. Bar and coffee bar.

Join us for a powerful screening of the film version of Terezín, Anna Smulowitz’s accl...

Bright Umbrella Theatre - Film screening - HMD 2026 Public

Bright Umbrella Theatre - Film screening - HMD 2026

Friday, 27 February 2026,

TEREZÍN (Film Screening) — a play by Anna Smulowitz. Bright Umbrella’s Sanctuary Theatre. Tuesday 27 February 19.00. Admission free. Bar and coffee bar.

Join us for a powerful screening of the film version of Terezín, Anna Smulowitz’s accl...

Crescent Arts Centre - Arts event - HMD 2026 Public

Crescent Arts Centre - Arts event - HMD 2026

Saturday, 24 January 2026,

Join us at The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, to celebrate the legacy of Helen Lewis: dancer, choreographer, and Holocaust survivor who became a pioneering figure in contemporary dance in Northern Ireland.

At this event:

- Hear about...

Northern Ireland War Memorial - Author Talk - HMD 2026 Public

Northern Ireland War Memorial - Author Talk - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

HMD 2026 - 'Transport Number 4 - Vienna 1941' by Mark Scott

This Holocaust Memorial Day event on Tuesday 27 January 2026 features a talk by author Mark Scott about his new book 'Transport Number 4 - Vienna 1941'. The book's publication has ...

Private

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council - Workshop - HMD 2026

Monday, 26 January 2026,

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council HMD Schools Seminar 2026

Seymour Kelly (Generation 2 Generation) will share the Story of his mother Lushka Kelly (née Klapholz) 1923-2003.

Seymour’s presentation intersperses Lushka’s own testimon...

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SAS Branch RBLS - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Royal British Legion Scotland, Saltcoats, Ardrossan and Stevenston Branch

A static remembrance service of the holocaust and other genocides outdoors at Saltcoats war memorial at 11am. Open to the public to participate

Private

Auchinleck Primary School - Lesson - HMD 2026

Friday, 9 January 2026,

Auchinleck Primary remember the Holocaust 2026

Throughout January 2026 our 21 P6 and 25 P7 pupils will study the years between 1933 and 1940 to learn how Jews were persecuted by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime through the implementation of the N...

Public

Unison Renfrewshire - Film Screening - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

We are proud to hold a commemoration event in honour of Jane Haining, Scotland's Heroine, captured and killed at Auschwitz Birkenau in 1944.

Join us and Jane's family for a special showing of a newly commissioned film by Unison Renfrewshire...

Private

East Renfrewshire Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Monday, 26 January 2026,

In recognition of the enduring and universal significance of the Holocaust and more recent genocides, East Renfrewshire Council will hold its annual Holocaust Memorial Day Event.
As well as musical performances, invited guest speakers will s...

Private

Glasgow City Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Glasgow City Council Schools HMD Event

A range of speakers will address an audience of around 400 young people and education staff.

Activities will include speeches, poetry, music, readings, dance and a candles ceremony.

Private

Keswick School - Assembly - HMD 2026

Monday, 26 January 2026,

We will hold assemblies for all year groups in the week before HMD. These will be taken by a History specialist and sixth formers who visited Auschwitz. The following week we will have a memorial in the school entrance hall. The memorial will i...