Beyond Camps and Forced Labour

View the updated conference programme and more details here.

This conference will 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 conference fee is £120 for three days or £60 for each individual day. Please register here. Note that there are some subsidised tickets available for PhD students. For further information please contact the Event Coordinator, Naomi Smith, at beyondcampsconference@gmail.com.

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.This conference is co-sponsored by the 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.