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.
Lighting up General Offices in purple for the 'Light in the Darkness' campaign
Holding a remembrance event in Tredegar
Distributing resources to schools
Having a reflection area/display in our libraries across Blaenau Gwent
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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...
Birmingham Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration
Birmingham’s annual civic commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day will take place at the Council House, Banqueting Suite, on Monday 26 January at 11:00am. Doors open at 10:30am, when visitors w...
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....
A moment to reflect and commemorate memory of the Holocaust and other genocides across different generations.
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 ...
Presentation to our Year 6 class by a relative of a Holocaust survivor.
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...
The event will be held on Sunday 25th January 2026 at 2pm finishing approx 3.30pm.
It will be held in the Quadrangle at Middlesex University.
The ceremony will include a diverse audience with many young people included. There will be c...
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...
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
Canolfan Alun R. Edwards (Aberystwyth Library) and Aberystwyth Bandstand will be lit-up in remembrance for Holocaust Memorial Day on the 27th January 2026.
Tuesday 27 January 2026, 2pm, commemorative service. Local schools participating.
Susie Barnett a German Holocaust survivor will addrees us with slides for an hour.
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 ...
Assembly to Year 8
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...
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...
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...