Published: Tuesday, 20th January 2026
Holocaust Memorial Day will be marked in King’s Lynn on Sunday, 25 January, with a service at the Town Hall.
It will include readings by the Borough Mayor Cllr Andy Bullen and Deputy Lieutenant David Flux.
Pupils from the town’s St Martha’s Catholic Primary School Choir will take part and readers also include children from Greyfriars Primary School, West Norfolk local policing Inspector Ben Jarvis, Rev Canon Dr Mark Dimond, members of the Jewish community, police cadets and the King’s Lynn Soroptimists.
The service will start at noon and marks the 25th year the HMD service has been held in King’s Lynn, from the first time a national Holocaust Day was created. This year’s national theme of Bridging Generations is reflected in the participants and aims to ensure that as we lose living witnesses, the Holocaust is not forgotten.
Holocaust Memorial Day itself is on January 27, the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945. The Stockholm declaration of 20000 saw 46 countries come together and commit to preserve the memory of those who were killed by the Nazis. Victims of subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur will also be remembered.