The Call for Papers is now live – deadline for submissions: 31 March 2025.
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour is an international, multidisciplinary conference organised by: Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London; the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich; the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University; Imperial War Museums, London; the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London; Leo Baeck Institute London; The Wiener Holocaust Library, London; University of Wolverhampton; and the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute, Vienna.
The aim of the conference is to 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.
This eighth international multidisciplinary conference is planned as a follow-up to the seven successful conferences which took place at Imperial War Museums, London in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2018 and 2023. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated and open up new fields of academic enquiry.