The eight edition of the multidisciplinary conference, taking place at Birkbeck University of London and the Wiener Holocaust Library from 7-9 January, brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution.
These groups will include – but are not limited to – Jews, Roma and Sinti, Slavonic peoples, Jehovah’s Witnesses, LGBTQIA+, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, people with disabilities, the so-called ‘racially impure’, and forced labourers. For the purpose of the conference, a ‘survivor’ is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis’ racial, political, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second World War.
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More information here.
The 2026 conference programme can be downloaded here.
The Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference is organised by:
- Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London
- Imperial War Museum Institute
- Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London
- The Wiener Holocaust Library, London
- University of Wolverhampton
- Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University
- Wiener Wiesenthal Institute
- Leo Baeck Institute London
- Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History.
