from Wednesday, 7. January 2026
to Friday, 9. January 2026

Birkbeck, University of London & The Wiener Holocaust Library, London

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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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.