Interview with Jules Schelvis (Dutch), 1983 (Tricht)
One of the eighteen Jews deported from transit camp Westerbork to survive Sobibor. He took along his guitar "as a welcome distraction to keep your thoughts elsewhere".
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Interview with Jules Schelvis (Dutch), 1983 (Tricht)
One of the eighteen Jews deported from transit camp Westerbork to survive Sobibor. He took along his guitar "as a welcome distraction to keep your thoughts elsewhere".
One of the eighteen Jews deported from transit camp Westerbork to survive Sobibor. He took along his guitar "as a welcome distraction to keep your thoughts elsewhere".
Interview with Jules Schelvis (Dutch), 1983 (Tricht)
One of the eighteen Jews deported from transit camp Westerbork to survive Sobibor. He took along his guitar "as a welcome distraction to keep your thoughts elsewhere".
One of the eighteen Jews deported from transit camp Westerbork to survive Sobibor. He took along his guitar "as a welcome distraction to keep your thoughts elsewhere".
Date:
1983 (Tricht)
Interviewee:
Jules Schelvis
Length:
38 minutes
Biography:
Jules Schelvis (Amsterdam, 7 January 1921) and his wife and in-laws were transported from Westerbork on 1 June, 1943. He took along his guitar "as a welcome distraction to keep your thoughts elsewhere". Upon arrival in Sobibor he managed to attach himself at the last moment to a group of men who had been selected to work in the turf camp Dorohucza. Jules Schelvis is one of the 18 Dutch Jews who survived Sobibor.
Repository:
NIOD archive 804; inventory number 32
last modification 11-06-2010
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