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.
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 ...
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...
Hackney's annual HMD event will be taking place in the chamber at Hackney Town Hall.
The event will be held on Sunday 25th January 2026 at 2pm finishing approx 3.30pm.
It will be held in the Quadrangle at Middlesex University.
The ceremony will include a diverse audience with many young people included. There will be c...
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...
Presentation to our Year 6 class by a relative of a Holocaust survivor.
The Story of Moshe Senensieb 1919 - 1990 and Ester Kraut 1922 - 2021
The story Aliya tells about her parents' exile to remote parts of the Soviet Union is little known. It is the story of many Polish Jews who had similar experiences and sur...
Susie Barnett a German Holocaust survivor will addrees us with slides for an hour.
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, author Anne Sebba will talk about her book 'The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz'.
Uxbridge Library
Wednesday 21 January 7pm
Booking essential
This w...
Angela Strach tells her father's story and his family's fate.
The Story of Eric Strach
Wednesday 21 January 2.15pm to 3pm
West Drayton library
Hillingdon
Angela, recounts Eric's experiences during the war, how he w...
Liberating Belsen - John Wood
Join us for a Holocaust Memorial Day talk, where John Wood will talk about his father's involvement in liberating Bergen Belsen.
Open to adults.
Tuesday 27 January 2026, 2pm, commemorative service. Local schools participating.
"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,...
Surrey History Centre: A Forgotten Scrapbook
Discover the early artistic talents of a German-Jewish refugee at Stoatley Rough School in Haslemere who became a renowned children's book illustrator in New York. Take a look at our webpage that...
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.
Never Again - Holocaust Memorial Day meeting
Speakers include Gaby Weiner, author of Tales of Loving and Leaving
Friday 30 January 6.30pm, Jarvis Brook Memorial Hall, Crowborough, TN6 2EG
Organised by Crowborough Stand Up to R...
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...
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...
HAVANT BOROUGH COUNCIL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COMMEMORATION 2026
Havant Borough Council are holding a short non-denominational service of commemoration at the Public Service Plaza, Civic Centre Road, Havant at 11.00am on Tuesday 27th January 20...
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...