What is Jules Schelvis?
{{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Jules Schelvis | honorific_suffix = | image = Jules-schelvis.jpg | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = Jules Schelvis in 2006 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|01|07|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|04|03|1921|01|07|df=y}} | death_place = [[Amstelveen]], [[Netherlands]] | nationality = [[Netherlands|Dutch]] | occupation = [[Historian]], [[author]]<br>[[Nazi hunter]] | spouse = {{marriage|Rachel Borzykowski|1940|June 1943|reason=her death}} }} '''Jules Schelvis''' (7 January 1921 – 3 April 2016) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] historian, writer, [[Holocaust survivor]] and [[Nazi hunter]]. He lost his wife and most of his family during [[The Holocaust]]. Schelvis was a [[plaintiff]] and [[expert witness]] during the trial of [[John Demjanjuk]].<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.sobiborinterviews.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14 Sobibor Interviews - Jules Schelvis] ''Sobiborinterviews.nl''</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/04/04/world/europe/ap-eu-obit-sobibor-survivor.html Obituary]{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in the New York Times, 4 April 2016</ref> == Notable works == *''[[Sobibor]] : a history of a Nazi death camp'' (Original Dutch title: ''Vernietigingskamp Sobibor''), 1993, Amsterdam: [[Bataafsche Leeuw]]. {{ISBN|978 90 6707 629 6}} *''Binnen de poorten'', 1995, Amsterdam: Bataafsche Leeuw. {{ISBN|978 90 6707 369 1}} *''Sobibor. Transportlijsten'', 2001, Amsterdam: Bataafsche Leeuw. {{ISBN|90 6707 516 7}} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schelvis, Jules}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Dutch historians]] [[Category:Dutch Jews]] [[Category:Dutch people of World War II]] [[Category:Holocaust survivors]