Current International Research On Survivors of Nazi Persecution
Eighth international multidisciplinary conference
This conference is planned as a follow-up to the seven successful conferences, which took place at Imperial War Museum 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.
The aim 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.
Fee: GBP 120 for speakers. The fee includes admission to all panels and evening events, lunches and refreshments during the conference. Further information and registration details will be made available in due course.
The conference is being organised by:
- Joseph Cronin, Birkbeck, University of London / Leo Baeck Institute London
- Maria Castrillo Llamas, Imperial War Museums, London
- David Feldman, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London
- Éva Kovács, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna
- Andrea Löw, Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich
- Stephen Naron, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University
- Christine Schmidt, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London
- Toby Simpson, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London
- Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton
- Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London
