Events for Holocaust Memorial Day 2026

Events are in the planning stage: full details will follow shortly.

A Real Pain(12A; USA 2024, 90 mins)
Lewes Film Club (open to non-members)
Friday 23 January 19:30, All Saints Centre, Friars Walk, Lewes
A powerfully funny, critically acclaimed and emotionally resonant dramedy about two American cousins who visit Poland for a Holocaust tour to honour their dead grandmother. Before the screening, Lewes Holocaust Memorial Day Group co-chair Tim Locke will give a 20-minute talk about his own experiences through childhood and later visiting his mother’s birthplace town of Dachau, from which she and her family were expelled by Nazis in 1939.

Bridging Generations

Saturday 24 January 15.00 (doors open 14.30) till 17.00 Trinity St John Sub Castro Church, Abinger Place, Lewes BN7 2QA. Retiring collection for Lewes Refugee Support Group (formerly LOSRAS).
Entrance is free; no booking required. (Note this is not a church event; this venue has been hired for the purpose.)
 
Keynote speaker: John Wood

Films for HMD at Depot cinema

Depot cinema Pinwell Road, Lewes BN7 2JS, lewesdepot.org
 

Statement from the group

The war in the Middle East is complex and tragic. We grieve for the innocent lives lost on all sides.
We hope that by remembering the Holocaust and other genocides and by recounting what happened to individuals who suffered we can reinforce the message of our common humanity.