*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.
Through the organisation Generation2Generation, we have arranged for a visiting speaker to recount her grandfather's story - he was a Holocaust survivor. This will be on Friday 30th January at 8.40am and will last approximately 45 minutes.
On Holocaust Memorial Day we commemorate the six million Jews, murdered during the Holocaust alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution, including Poles, Roma and Sinti people, disabled people, LGBT+ people, Black people,...
National Holocaust Week Gen2Gen Talk 2026. Dalya Wittenberg familystory
23.01.2026, 12 noon for 1.5 hrs in total. About 100 students, girls and boys.
Generation 2 Generation organisation for National Holocaust week. Guest speaker Dal...
We will be joined by a number of guest speakers, who will be sharing their experiences and reflections on the theme of HMD 2026 ‘Bridging Generations’. Students from Norwich High School for Girls will also be performing a selection of music pieces...
Lesley Urbach will talk to us about her mother Eva who is a survivor of the Holocaust. This will be on Thursday, 29 January during lunch from 12.30-1.30pm in the Jameson Library.
We hold a monthly In Conversation with special guests in a 'cha show format'; the January event was a special Holocaust Memorial Event when we had as our guest Georgina Bye, Co-Director of CCJ. As well as exploring CCJ and Georgina's commitment t...
Various speakers including councillors, MPs, Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire. Also attending, Chairman of Hertfordshire County Council and sixth form students
Sir William Ramsay, Holocaust memorial assembly
We are using the 2026 theme and my two students from the HET Lessons from Auschwitz course are running the assembly for all year groups throughout the week.
Newminster Middle School, NHEG talk from Vivienne Cato
On January 26th 2026, Vivienne Cato is coming to Newminster Middle School to tell her mother's story to our Year 8 students. The talk will begin at 9.15am to 130 students.
Rhodes Wood Hospital School, Life in a glass workshop 2026
We are running two activities
One is focused on Irena Sendler and how she intervened to help.
The other is on the importance of HMD and what we can learn. Using handpri...
From Tuesday 27th - Friday 30th January
Display at Borth Hub by a 3rd generation survivor of the Holocaust. Clarach Road SY24 5LW.
Visit organised for children from Ysgol Craig y Wylfa
Our Annual Holocaust Memorial Day service takes place on Monday 26th January . This year it is for Year 10 students and led by our Headteacher Ms Sylvia Tai. Our special guest speakers are Steven Frank, Holocaust survivor and great friend of the s...
Tuesday 27 January 2026, 2pm, commemorative service. Local schools participating.
Gen2Gen speaker at St Margaret's Junior School, Bushey for Year 6
Judith Hayman (booked through Gen2Gen) will be coming into St Margaret's Junior School on Wednesday 11th February 2026 in the afternoon to speak to the Year 6 pupils. Times a...
Lesley from Generation 2 Generation is coming to speak for 50 mins about the lives of Eva Urbach and Ulli Adler.
Lesley will speak at Merchant Taylors' School's JSOC, to our secondary school students in Years 7-13. There will be several Jewi...
Hertsmere’s Holocaust Memorial Day Event is being held on Tuesday 27th January in Borehamwood. The event will begin with a lantern parade assisted by Hertsmere HPVC from our Civic Offices at 5.45pm, which will walk along to Hertswood Academy Thea...
Hertsmere's Holocaust Memorial Day Event will be taking place at Hertswood Academy in Borehamwood. We have a speaker who will tell the story of her fathers experiences during the holocaust, we have a choir and candle lighting by local dignitaries....
The Darfur Genocide of 2003-5 and the continuing violence in Sudan.
Khalid Sidahmed will talk about the Darfur Genocide of 2003-5 and the continuing violence in Sudan.
Khalid was born in London to a Sudanese family. Like many in the d...
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day the National Library of Wales will light up the building on 27 January
Canolfan Alun R. Edwards (Aberystwyth Library) and Aberystwyth Bandstand will be lit-up in remembrance for Holocaust Memorial Day on the 27th January 2026.