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Jules Schelvis: Sobibor: a history of a Nazi death camp

"Sobibor", written by Holocaust Survivor Jules Schelvis is "a carefully researched and closely argued academic text that has employed the available testimonies and postwar trial documents to produce a comprehensive history of the camp." Using his own experience as well as an academic approach, he details the creation of the killing center, its personnel, the use of railways, selections, forced labour, gas chambers, escape attempts and the historic uprising.
After publishing the Dutch edition in 1993, the English edition takes into account new research and concentrates more firmly on the origins and history of Sobibor extermination camp. Jules Schelvis is a Holocaust survivor and independent scholar. In 1943, he was deported to Sobibor where he lost his wife and her family. He lives in the Netherlands.

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  • The banality of evil: from Auschwitz to Mariupol

    The YouTube channel "10 Questions to a Historian" featured an interview about the history of the Auschwitz death camp, which has become an undisputed symbol of Nazi crimes in World War II. This is the story of how some people (including educated and seemingly mentally healthy people) killed other people on a scale and systematic basis that had never been seen before. The "banality of evil" was that the virtue of loyalty turned bureaucrats into committed genocide performers.

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  • Threats of totalitarianism today. Public lecture

    On 2 April 2024, a public lecture by historian Anatolii Podolskyi, Head of the UCHS, was held at the Kyiv Cooperative Institute of Business and Law. Threats of totalitarianism today. Comparison of the Nazi crimes and modern russian ideology in the war against Ukraine was the topic.

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  • Recommendations for the preparation of student competition works

    Dear colleagues and participants of the XXIV Medvinsky All-Ukrainian Student Competition "History and Lessons of the Holocaust"! The UCHS team has prepared recommendations and useful tips for the preparation of competition entries in one post for your convenience.

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  • Kovel: the Life and Death of the Jewish Community

    Kovel: the Life and Death of the Jewish Community/ Petro Dolhanov. — Kyiv : Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, 2023. — 101 p.

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  • Bulletin «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 1 (77), 2024

    Dear colleagues! The fresh issue of information-pedagogical bulletin of UCHS «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 1 (77), January-March, 2024 has been published.

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