Holocaust Memorial Day

Published: 20 January 2026

Holocaust Memorial Day, Tuesday 27 January 2026

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place every year on 27 January. It is a national day of commemoration for the six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the millions killed in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. HMD is an opportunity for communities across the UK to come together to remember, reflect, and learn.

Redbridge will be commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday 27 January with an event at Valentines Park.

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2026, ‘Bridging Generations’ is a call-to-action. A reminder that the responsibility of remembrance doesn’t end with the survivors - it lives on through their children, their grandchildren and through all of us.

Event details

The commemoration service will take place at Holocaust Memorial Gardens in Valentines Park
Tuesday 27 January 2026
10am to 10.45am

There will be guest speakers from the council, the local Jewish community, faith groups and schools, and a performance from the Oaks Lane Reform Synagogue choir.

This memorial is open to the public. Seating will be limited, but there will also be standing room.

Memory to Memorial exhibition at Valentines Mansion

An exhibition will display a selection of work by the artist Stanislaw Brunstein, who was born in Warsaw in 1914, and died in Ilford in 1994.

The exhibition takes you on the artist’s journey from his beloved Warsaw to post war England, via escape into Soviet Russia, prison, slave labour in Siberia, army service in North Africa, and the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy, whilst also having studied fine art in Warsaw, Paris and Rome. His final destination was a house in a street five minutes away from Valentines Park.

Memory to Memorial: From Warsaw to Valentines - Valentines Mansion