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 ...
A service to be held at Newport Cathedral.
The service will predominantly be led by school pupils with a reading undertaken by The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Newport.
Pupils from a local Comprehensive school will undertake two other...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
Our annual commemorative event is taking place on Sunday 25th January, 2.00- 4.30.
We always start our event the same way with 7 adults lighting 7 candles and 7 young people reading from the Holocaust statement of commitment
Using the ...
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...
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...
Local schools and community groups have contributed to the annual Holocaust commemoration library exhibition which is open from Monday 19th January until Saturday 31st January in Bangor Carnegie library.
Holocaust commemoration talk
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 ...
Talks and seminars for schools will be taking place in Exeter on Tues 27th Jan 2026:
Kindertransport
Porrajmos film- Gypsy Holocaust
Art of Samuel Bak
HMD Opening Ceremony and Survivor Talk
Exeter Cathedral
10-11.15am
27th January 2026
Dignitaries and school pupils will light candles
A second generation survivor will be speaking about Kindertransport
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.