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.
Feast day celebration for St Maximilian Kolbe
We celebrate the life of St Maximilian Kolbe, a catholic saint who gave his life in the place of another man in Auschwitz. As part of the day the northern holocaust memorial service are giving a ...
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place each year on 27th January.
Each year, HMD is shaped by a specific theme that guides how we remember, reflect, and learn.
The theme for HMD 2026 is Bridging Generations
The theme is a ...
On Friday 12th December, Year 6 will have a special visitor — Alison Cooper from the Northern Holocaust Education Group.
Alison will be sharing the remarkable and moving story of her mother, Judis Singer, who was born during the Second Worl...
Bringing the Northern Holocaust Education Group into school on Wednesday 21st January at 14.00 - 14.50 provides Year 9 students with a powerful and meaningful learning experience that deepens their understanding of one of the most significant even...
Talk by a member of NHEG for years 5&6 followed by a question and answer session
Assembly to Year 8
On the 16th of January 2026, Marin Hyman an ex-colleague of mine will deliver a talk to the parishioners of Bolton by Bowland village, Ribble Valley, Lancashire. The talk will focus entirely on Martin’s relative’s experiences of the concentration...
This is a public event on Tuesday 27th January 2026 at 11am to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. It has happened every year for the last 25 years. Led by the Mayor of Warwick there is a short memorial event involving readings by students from Warwick's...
North Tyneside's Commemorative Event will take place at Quadrant East, Cobalt Business Park,m Silverlink, North, North Tyneside NE27 0BY on Friday 23 January 2026 9:30-11:30am.
The event will feature presentations from North Tyneside schools...
Tuesday 27 January 2026, 2pm, commemorative service. Local schools participating.
Presentation to our Year 6 class by a relative of a Holocaust survivor.
A moment to reflect and commemorate memory of the Holocaust and other genocides across different generations.
Susie Barnett a German Holocaust survivor will addrees us with slides for an hour.
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...
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.
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....
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 ...
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