804 Research collection Sobibór Jules Schelvis

Identifier
irn43012
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.21
  • RG-41.009
Dates
1 Jan 1983 - 31 Dec 1993
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Dutch
  • German
  • English
  • Polish
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43012

Extent and Medium

9,230 digital images, JPEG

2 DVDs, 4 3/4 in.

Creator(s)

  • Jules Schelvis

Biographical History

Jules Schelvis (Amsterdam 7 January 1921) was put on transport from Westerbork on 1 June 1943 with his wife and in-laws. He brought his guitar as a ‘welcome distraction to take our mind off things’. On arrival in Sobibor he managed at the last moment to join a group of men who were selected for labour in the peat camp of Dorohucza. Jules Schelvis was one of the eighteen Dutch Jews who survived Sobibor.

Archival History

NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies

Acquisition

Records collected by Jules Schelvisa, Holocaust survivor, for his research on the concentration camp of Sobibór and deposited to the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from NIOD via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2011

Scope and Content

Contains source materials for research of Jules Schelvis, a Holocaust survivor, on the death camp of Sobibór. Includes articles; reports; copies of evidence; documentations, illustrations; and eye witness reports. He published his findings in his work "Vernietigingskamp Sobibór /Death camp Sobibór " (Amsterdam 1993) and "Sobibór: A History of a Nazi Death Camp- Jules Schelvis" (New York, 2007, Published by Berg Publishers in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies

People

  • Schelvis, Jules, 1921-

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Sobibór.
  • Jews--Netherlands--Biography.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.

Genre

  • Document
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