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*The map is now CLOSED for 2026* 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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Taunton Library - 80 candles for 80 years - HMD 2026

Monday, 5 January 2026,

To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and Birkenau and the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust selected 80 UK organisations to participate in the “80 candles for 80 years” initiative....

Public

Lewes Holocaust Memorial Day Group - Talk - HMD 2026

Saturday, 24 January 2026,

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...

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...

Private

Brighton Quakers - Light a Candle of Hope Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Public

Westgate Evangelical Chapel - Service - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Service of Remembrance - using Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Service Resources
Held at Westgate Evangelical Chapel, Pembroke at 7.00 pm on Tuesday 27th January 2026

Public

Westgate Evangelical Chapel - Memorial Service - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Westgate Evangelical chapel in Pembroke are hosting a memorial service for Holocaust Memorial Day at 7pm on Tuesday 27th January 2026. It will bring together a presentation on this year's theme 'Bridging Generations' and also a Christian service o...

Private

Preston Lodge High School - Assemblies - HMD 2026

Monday, 26 January 2026,

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...

Balancing in Freedom - Arts Activity - HMD 2026 Public

Balancing in Freedom - Arts Activity - HMD 2026

Thursday, 29 January 2026,

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...

Public

Folkestone Town Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Private

Deans Community High School - Assembly - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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 ...

Eastbourne Holocaust Memorial Day volunteers - Ceremony - HMD 2026 Public

Eastbourne Holocaust Memorial Day volunteers - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Eastbourne's Holocaust Memorial Day Event 2026

Eastbourne’s Holocaust Memorial Day event, organised by dedicated local volunteers, will take place on Tuesday 27 January 2026 at 6.30pm at the Welcome Building (next to the Congress Theatre), ...

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...