Beyond Camps and Forced Labour
From 7 to 9 January 2026, the eighth international and interdisciplinary conference “Beyond Camps and Forced Labour” took place at Birkbeck, University of London, and the Wiener Holocaust Library.
(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” aimed to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines who focus on researching all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. Discussions included questions of memory and identity, the challenges of post-war reconstruction after 1945, and the long-term consequences of violence and displacement.
The conference was 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, the University of Wolverhampton, the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University, the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute, the Leo Baeck Institute London, and the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History.
The Hans and Berthold Finkelstein Foundation financially supported this international conference for the first time this year.
The full conference programme is available here.
