Jules Schelvis

Jules Schelvis ( * 1921 in Amsterdam) is a survivor of several concentration camps, including the extermination camp Sobibor and later joined as co-plaintiff at the Sobibor processes on. Schelvis has his experiences published in a book that is considered the standard work on the Sobibor extermination camp today.

Life

Jules Schelvis, his wife Rachel and their family were arrested in May 1943 in Amsterdam by the German police. It was followed by the deportation to Sobibor on the Westerbork transit camp. Schelvis that arrived in a shipment of more than 3,000 people to Sobibor, was one of 81 men who were selected as the working prisoners and so not found death in the gas chambers already on the day of arrival. As a working prisoner he was taken to the SS labor camp Dorohucza, then to the ghetto in Radom. Later deported to Auschwitz, he escaped again from death by gassing in the selection. In March 1945 Schelvis, who until then had survived ten concentration camp was liberated by French troops. Most recently, he was in a concentration camp Vaihingen / Enz, which was a sub-camp Natzweiler -Struthof.

Schelvis has his experiences in Sobibor and other camps, supplemented with testimony from the Sobibor processes and extensive archive material published in a book. Its applicable today as the standard work book extermination camp Sobibor was published in 1993 in the Netherlands. Schelvis now lives in the Netherlands, but despite his advanced age, often on the lecture go.

Works

• Extermination camp Sobibor. . Münster, restlessness Publishing 2003 ISBN 3-89771-814-6 (original edition: Berlin, ISBN 3-926893-33-8 1998 Metropol. . )
• A journey through the darkness. A report of two years in the German extermination and concentration camps. Münster, restlessness Publisher 2005. ISBN 3-89771-815-4