Holocaust Memorial Day
Tuesday 27 January 2026 at 10am
All are welcome to join us on Tuesday 27 January for a special service commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, remembering the victims of the Holocaust and more recent genocides.
This year’s guest speakers will include:
Liz Small – Devon Romani community representative
David Tollerton – Associate Professor in Memory Studies and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Exeter
Tim Locke – The Story of Ruth and Raimund Neumeyer
Holocaust Memorial Day marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, and is a commemorative day where we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children who were murdered, and the millions more murdered under Nazi persecution. It is also a day to learn and commemorate where persecution led in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 is ‘Bridging Generations’, and reminds us that the responsibility of remembrance doesn’t end with the survivors – it lives on through their children, their grandchildren and through all of us. This theme encourages us all to engage actively with the past – to listen, to learn and to carry those lessons forward. By doing so, we build a bridge between memory and action, between history and hope for the future.