Beyond Camps and Forced Labour
The eighth international interdisciplinary conference on research into Nazi persecution will take place from January 7 to 9, 2026, at Birkbeck University of London and the Vienna Holocaust Library in London.
(c) Wiener Holocaust Library (Collections)
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) welfare worker, Miss Eileen Wermig, leads a group of young children at the UNRRA Weisbaden Camp, where some 5,000 children were housed, pictured after the Second World War.
The conference ‘Beyond Camps and Forced Labour’ aims to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution.
The conference is organised by the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at the University of London, the Imperial War Museum Institute, the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, the University of Wolverhampton, the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, the Leo Baeck Institute London and the Centre for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History.
Registration for the 2026 conference is now open.
You can find out more and register here. The full conference programme is available here.
