27 May, 2025

Call for Papers for 2026 Conference is open

The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (HL-senteret), Norway, and the Institute for Holocaust research in Sweden (IHRS) cordially invites scholars, curators and educators in the field of Holocaust Studies and Education to the conference Survivors of the Holocaust. Testimonies, Experiences, Narratives in Stockholm on March 12, 2026.

Although 2025 marks 80 years since the end of the war, to many survivors the Holocaust never ended but continued as an ongoing trauma which they processed throughout their lives. Testimonies were collected already during and after the war, and also later in several collections by for instance the Shoah Foundation, Yad Vashem and Wiener Holocaust Library. In the 2026 conference the IHRS and the HL-Senteret focuses on the survivors and their ongoing survival. This can also include the documentation and testimonies which survived while the authors did not.

We are happy to announce that Professor Malin Thor Tureby of Malmö University will give the keynote entitled “From Milk Cans to Holograms. The Survivors and the Making of Nordic Holocaust Historiography and Public Memory”, reflecting on how Holocaust survivors have contributed to documenting and remembering the Holocaust during the last 80 years in a Nordic Context.

We welcome proposals reflecting on the Holocaust from the perspective of the victims, primarily using testimonies but also secondary sources. Deadline is August 31st, 2025. Read more here Call_for_Papers_Conference_2026

BILDTEXT: Female refugees in Malmö harbor 1945. Source: Nordiska museet, NMA.0035630. Photo: K W Gullers