International multidisciplinary conference “The Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference” in London, January 7–9, 2026
On January 7–9, 2026, an international multidisciplinary conference, “The Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference”, was held in London, organised by:
• Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London
• Imperial War Museum Institute
• Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London
• The Wiener Holocaust Library, London
• University of Wolverhampton
• Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University
• The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
• Leo Baeck Institute London
• Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History.
It was a wonderful event, full of outstanding papers!
EEHRI took part in one of the panels entitled “Early Holocaust Testimony. Unlocking Collections in East-Central Europe,” featuring Zofia Trębacz, EHRI-PL Coordinator, who presented the paper “How to Speak about the Unspeakable? Early Holocaust Testimonies in the Collection of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute.”
The panel also included other researchers and EHRI collaborators: Michal Frankl, Magdalena Sedlická, Maria Dermentzi, and Martin Wynne, as well as Ildikó Barna.
