'Muitende Russen streden op Texel een heldhaftigen strijd', kopie van een artikel uit 'Het Parool' van 6 november 1945 , 1945 .

Netherland Forces Intelligence Service [NEFIS] en Centrale Militaire Inlichtingendienst [CMI] in Nederlands-Indië > INVENTARIS PERIODE 1942-1945 > TIMOR >

Nederlandse Gerechten te Londen > ARCHIEF VAN DE RECHTBANK > Correspondentie > Ingekomen rapporten bij de president van de N.S.H.C. betreffende de muiterij van de bemanningen van het s.s. "Tjibesar" en het s.s. "Rossum",

ARCH00101: Archief Fokke Bosman DOKUMENTATIE Periodieken, kranten en kranteknipsels

Collectie 249-1229: Dossier - Zeven Provinciën - muiterij

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ARCH00101: Archief Fokke Bosman DOKUMENTATIE Periodieken, kranten en kranteknipsels

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Interview with Jules Schelvis (Amsterdam 7 January 1921). Schelvis 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 ...

Interview with Thomas Blatt (Izbica 15 April 1927). Blatt arrived in Sobibor by truck on 23 April 1943. He escaped the gas chamber because a guard spotted him among the women and children and said: "Du Kleiner, komm mal 'raus". In the camp he had to help strengthen the fencing, later he had to sort and burn documents. After his escape he was shot by a Polish farmer and he wandered through the surrounding ...

Interview with Hella Weiss (née Felenbaum; Lublin 25 November 1924). Weiss arrived in Sobibor just before Christmas in a horse-drawn cart. She worked in the laundry, had to knit socks and gloves and she tended to the flower garden. About her time in the camp she remembers: "They tormented us terribly". After her escape she fought with the partisans and in the Soviet army. She received six decorations, ...

Interview with Stephan Stelmaszuk (Nidzia 1928) and Tadeus Syczuk (Dorohucza 1923). Stelmaszuk and his family lived about four kilometres away from Sobibor. Sometimes he could smell the stench of burned bodies. His mother gave food to two survivors of the uprising. He knew little about the camp, because 'all you saw was a fence around it'. Syczuk, a railway employee, witnessed abuse and mass destruction. ...

Interview with Schlomo Alster (Chelm 1 December 1908). Alster was a carpenter and in Sobibor he had to help build barracks. He explained to new arrivals: 'That is the fire, those are the people who just arrived.' After the uprising he joined the partisans. In 1936 Schlomo Alster married Hanna Grindberg. Not long after that their first child was born, followed by the second two years later. When they ...

Interview with Arkady Wajspapir (1921). Wajspapir served as a sergeant in the Red Army and was injured in September 1941. As a Jewish prisoner of war he and the other Soviet soldiers had to build barracks in Lager IV in Sobibor. It quickly dawned on him that 'the only way out of there was to escape'. Before he was drafted into the Red Army Arkady Wajspapir worked as an engineer. After his recovery ...