The service will feature music and readings from local schools, members of the local community and council, the Students Union, The Chaplaincy Team, and University Staff.
Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis attempted to annihilate all of Europe’s Jews. This systematic and planned attempt to murder European Jewry is known as the Holocaust (The Shoah in Hebrew). From the time they assumed power in 1933, the Nazis used propaganda, persecution, and legislation to deny human and civil rights to Jews. They used centuries of antisemitism as their foundation. By the end of the Holocaust, six million Jewish men, women and children had perished in ghettos, mass-shootings, in concentration camps and extermination camps.
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2026, 'Bridging Generations', is a call-to-action.
As the years pass, we’re growing more distant in time from the Holocaust and from the other, more recent genocides that are commemorated on HMD. That distance brings a risk, memory fades and the sharp reality of what happened becomes blurred, abstract or even questioned.
Bridging Generations highlights the crucial role of the next generation in preserving the memory of the Holocaust and carrying it forward. It highlights the power of intergenerational dialogue, of listening to those who came before us and of sharing those stories with those who come after. In doing so, we don’t just preserve memory, we connect it to the present. Generations invites us to honour each life, and honour those who left no family to carry their legacy.
The service is free and open to the public.
is required.
All welcome!