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.
Lesley will be talking to a year 6 class from the local primary school about events around the Holocaust. This will be aimed at younger children so that they will be able to understand what happened, learn and be able to understand how this traum...
"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,...
BPP Holborn Library Holocaust Memorial Day Space of Reflection 2026
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place every year on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. It is an internatio...
BPP University Library London Holocaust Memorial Day Space of Reflection 2026
The BPP Library Team are commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day with a Space of Reflection at our London Central (Holborn) Library site, and a dedicated book displa...
City St. George's Students' Union, Holocaust Memorial Day Talk, 2026
The event will be taking place on campus in collaboration with our Chaplaincy team and Jewish Society. The event will be held on the 27th January from 4pm-6pm, with Franci...
Our commemoration will take place in the Council Chamber of Chelmsford City Council. Dignitaries will be present including The Lord-Lieutenant of Essex, the Mayor, the High Sheriff, the Chair of Essex County Council. It consists of readings, music...
To ring a half muffled quarter peal on the bells of St John at Hackney Church from 11am to noon in support of the LB Hackney event taking place in the nearby Town Hall
UCL Jsoc lunch and learn
HMDT talk about HMD, specifically focusing on the Righteous among the nations.
Hackney's annual HMD event will be taking place in the chamber at Hackney Town Hall.
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...
Labour Students HMD Event in Parliament
6 pm-7:30 pm in Parliament
Labour Students and Lord Mike Katz
We will be hearing a series of testimonies and poetry readings, as well as having reflections from speakers on this year's th...
The Embassy of Ireland took part in the national Light the Darkness moment by lighting our building in purple at 8pm on 27 January 2026.
Hatikvah Media will be providing this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day podcast and radio event at Revive FM in London.
The host , Ali Fateh , is a London based journalist with a legal background dedicated to the rights and dignity of all peopl...
Jewish Greens HMD Event January 2026
Sunday, January 18th, 6pm - 7pm
As in previous years, Jewish Greens organised a Holocaust Memorial Day event with a speaker from Generation 2 Generation (G2G).
Angela Strach told her father's...
BRIDGING GENERATIONS
Hatikvah Media for Revive FM London
27/01/2026. 7am to 8am
Hatikvah Media will be providing this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day podcast and radio event at Revive FM in London.
The host , Ali Fateh ,...
Mastercard has a Jewish employee group who have decided to mark HMD with speakers - Jacques Weisser and John Wood, who will present to colleagues on their experiences.
Holocaust charity guest speakers will be delivering 5 sessions to Year 8 and 9 students.
We will be taking photos of four of us lighting candles for HMD and sharing some content and the photos on screens around our London office and our our intranet. The people lighting candles will be sharing what the Holocaust means to them and a p...
Memory to Memorial: From Warsaw to Valentines. The Stanislaw Brunstein Society
An exhibition showing a selection of work by the artist Stanislaw Brunstein, born in Warsaw in 1914, died in Ilford in 1994.
These paintings will take you...
The service will be held at Bevis Marks Synagogue, City of London, between 12:30 - 13:00 on the 27th Jan .It will be a short service ,where prayers and memorial candles will be lit. We are inviting officials from the City and City Workers to atte...