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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.

Parkes Institute, University of Southampton - Ceremony - HMD 2026 Public

Parkes Institute, University of Southampton - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

On January 27 2026 Southampton will mark the UK’s national Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day (HMD) with a commemorative event organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations (University of Southampton) on behalf of...

Public

Havant Borough Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Crowborough Stand Up to Racism - Talk - HMD 2026 Public

Crowborough Stand Up to Racism - Talk - HMD 2026

Friday, 30 January 2026,

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...

Public

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...

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), ...

Crescent Arts Centre - Arts event - HMD 2026 Public

Crescent Arts Centre - Arts event - HMD 2026

Saturday, 24 January 2026,

Join us at The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, to celebrate the legacy of Helen Lewis: dancer, choreographer, and Holocaust survivor who became a pioneering figure in contemporary dance in Northern Ireland.

At this event:

- Hear about...

Northern Ireland War Memorial - Author Talk - HMD 2026 Public

Northern Ireland War Memorial - Author Talk - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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 ...