Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
Wednesday 7 – Friday 9 January 2026
This conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. 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.
Conference venues: Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library, London. The conference will be held in person, with no option to attend virtually.
The conference fee is £120 for three days or £60 for each individual day. There are some subsidised tickets available for PhD students. For further information please contact the Event Coordinator, Naomi Smith, at beyondcampsconference@gmail.com.
If you are unable to attend the conference once you have made a booking or wish to cancel your booking, you have a statutory right to do so within 14 days of making your payment and receive a full refund. After this date there will be a £25.00 administrative charge. It is not possible to make any refund after 5 December 2025.
The programme will be available online soon.
Organised by: Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck University of London; Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich; Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University; the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London; Imperial War Museums, London; Leo Baeck Institute London; Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna; and The Wiener Holocaust Library, London; University of Wolverhampton.
Contact name: Naomi Smith
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