Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour is a multi-disciplinary conference 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; the Fortunoff Video Archive; the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute; the Leo Baeck Institute London; and the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History.
The aim is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. These 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.
The Eighth international multidisciplinary conference is to be held at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library, London from 7-9 January 2026.
This conference is planned as a follow-up to the seven successful conferences, which took place at Imperial War Museum London in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2018 and 2023. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated and open up new fields of academic enquiry.
The Call for Papers is now live, download the full document below.
