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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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Ashlyns Sixth Form - Talks - HMD 2026

Friday, 30 January 2026,

2 talks.
Yr13 146 students, 9-10am survivor family member speaker
Yr12 186 students, 10-11am survivor family member speaker
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Community Solidarity Stroud District - Commemoration - HMD 2026 Public

Community Solidarity Stroud District - Commemoration - HMD 2026

Sunday, 25 January 2026,

A regular annual event including speakers from local faith, community and anti-fascist groups in Stroud, with music by the Stroud Red Band. Local author Alice Jolly is taking part. Participants include Three Counties Liberal Jewish Community, Str...

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St Edmundsbury Cathedral - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

On Tuesday 27 January, the annual Holocaust Memorial Day Service will take place in the Abbey Gardens Peace Garden at 10.30 am, led by St Edmundsbury Cathedral. This National Day of Remembrance is in honour of victims of genocide.

During Ho...

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Chiltern Hills Academy - Gen2Gen Speaker - HMD 2026

Friday, 30 January 2026,

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.

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Cumbria County UNISON - Workshop - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 18 March 2026,

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,...

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Verulam Sixth Form School - Talk - HMD 2026

Friday, 23 January 2026,

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...

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Norwich High School - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Monday, 26 January 2026,

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...

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Norwich High School - Survivor Talk - HMD 2026

Thursday, 29 January 2026,

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.

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Wantage & Abingdon Methodist Circuit - In Conversation - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 20 January 2026,

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...

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East Herts Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Thursday, 22 January 2026,

Various speakers including councillors, MPs, Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire. Also attending, Chairman of Hertfordshire County Council and sixth form students

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Sir William Ramsay school - Assembly - HMD 2026

Monday, 19 January 2026,

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.

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Newminster Middle School - Second Generation Speaker - HMD 2026

Monday, 26 January 2026,

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.

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Rhodes Wood Hospital School - Workshop, Talk - HMD 2026

Friday, 23 January 2026,

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...

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Ysgol Craig y Wylfa - Arts Display - HMD 2026

Friday, 30 January 2026,

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

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St Margaret's Junior School - Gen2Gen Speaker - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 11 February 2026,

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...

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Merchant Taylors' School JSOC - Gen2Gen Speaker - HMD 2026

Thursday, 5 February 2026,

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...

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Watford Grammar School for Girls - Survivor Talk - HMD 2026

Monday, 26 January 2026,

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...

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Hertsmere Borough Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

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Hertsmere Borough Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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....