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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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Brechin High School - Lesson - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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.

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...

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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...

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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...

Alderney Churches Together (ACT) - Ceremony - HMD 2026 Public

Alderney Churches Together (ACT) - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Alderney Churches Together (ACT) HMD Commemoration 2026

27th January 11:00am - 11:30 Alderney Churches Together (ACT) welcomes all members of the Alderney Community to a short ecumenical service to commemorate HMD. This year the theme 'Bri...

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Aberdeen Grammar School - Speaker Event - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 28 January 2026,

In light of the Holocaust Memorial Day theme for 2026, ‘Bridging Generations’, they have the privilege of attending a talk and Q and A session with Gillian Field, daughter of Holocaust survivors Henry Wuga and Ingrid Wolff. Gillian’s parents met i...

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University of Aberdeen - Gen2Gen Speaker - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 10 February 2026,

Giving a talk to social subjects student teachers on teaching the Holocaust in secondary schools. This willbe followed by a talk from Maria Chamberlain about her family's story.

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Dyce Academy - Assembly - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

Starting from 27th January, we will hold assemblies every day (one for each year group) of that week. S2 pupils who have been studying the Holocaust will lead the assemblies with the help of our Senior pupils - Equalities Ambassadors.

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Truro Cathedral - HMD commemoration ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

The event is on Holocaust Memorial Day, Tuesday 27 January 2026. The service commences at 12noon and will run to 1.15pm. It will include readings and reflections, through different media, from people affected by the Holocaust and genocide. Every...

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Jersey - HMD Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

As the only British soil occupied by German forces in the Second World War, Jersey remembers the victims of the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and subsequent acts of genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. There is a special focus on the h...

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Highland Friends of Israel - Display/Exhibition - HMD 2026

Saturday, 24 January 2026,

HFOI are also doing a display of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Life Stories and the History of the Holocaust plus some Information from Vad VaShem and other sources on the exterior of our gazebo and on our billboards in the middle of Inverness Hig...

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Highland Friends of Israel - Display - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 20 January 2026,

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Life Stories and some of the history of the Holocaust and a few pieces from Yad VaShem are on display in the main libary of Inverness from today Monday 19th January to Monday 2nd February.

Rugby Art Gallery and Museum - Arts Activity - HMD 2026 Public

Rugby Art Gallery and Museum - Arts Activity - HMD 2026

Monday, 5 January 2026,

An installation of origami butterflies went on display in the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum Community Space to mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme, Bridging Generations.

The theme underscores the importance of connecting people ac...

Durham University - Talk - HMD 2026 Private

Durham University - Talk - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 28 January 2026,

Wednesday 28 January 2026 18.00-19.15
Organised by the Durham University Jewish Society, Durham University Chaplaincy Network and Stephenson College, Durham University
Talk delivered by Vivienne Cato (Northern Holocaust Education Group...

British Airways - Light the Darkness, Survivor Speaker - HMD 2026 Private

British Airways - Light the Darkness, Survivor Speaker - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 20 January 2026,

This year we ran a series of activites across the week leading up to HMD. We started with welcoming Steven Frank to talk in our HQ. This was an in person and online event and attracted over 180 people in total. The recording of the talk was shared...