804 Research collection Sobibór Jules Schelvis
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
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Netherlands--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Sobibór.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie