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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.

Blaenau GwentCBC - Light the Darkness, Display, Event - HMD 2026 Public

Blaenau GwentCBC - Light the Darkness, Display, Event - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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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Public

Warwick Town Council - Holocaust Memorial Day street event - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Public

Birmingham City Council - Ceremony - HMD 2026

Monday, 26 January 2026,

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...

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....

Deutsche Schule London - Survivor speaker - HMD 2026 Public

Deutsche Schule London - Survivor speaker - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 21 January 2026,

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...

Public

London Borough of Barnet - Commemoration Service - HMD 2026

Sunday, 25 January 2026,

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...

Westminster Synagogue - Film Screening - HMD 2026 Public

Westminster Synagogue - Film Screening - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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...

Public

Devon Faith and Belief Forum - Survivor Speaker - HMD 2026

Tuesday, 27 January 2026,

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

Private

St Thomas More CVA - Talk - HMD 2026

Wednesday, 8 January 2025,

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 ...

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

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

Manchester High School for Girls - HMD Education Talk - HMD 2026

Friday, 12 December 2025,

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...