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This project consists of fifteen interviews: thirteen interviews with survivors of the uprising on 14 October 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp, one interview with two Polish locals and one with a survivor of the uprising in the crematorium of Auschwitz-Birkenau.The interviews of the Sobibor survivors were filmed in 1983 and 1984. During this period the trial against camp commander Karl Frenzel took place in the German city of Hagen. Jules Schelvis, himself a Sobibor survivor, attended the trial as a correspondent for the newspaper Het Vrije Volk. He was accompanied by Dunya Breur (†2009), an authority on Slavonic languages, who was following the trial for a film production company.Survivors came from America, Israel, Brazil and Australia to testify during the trial. Schelvis and Breur filmed these survivors using video equipment they bought themselves. Schelvis operated the camera and Breur conducted the interviews. Some interviews were recorded later in the home of Schelvis in Tricht. Schelvis and Breur travelled to the Russian city of Rostov on Don to interview Alexander Pechersky and Arkadij Wajspapir.He and Dunya Breur conducted additional interviews with two Polish people from the Sobibor area and one survivor of the revolt in the crematorium of Auschwitz-Birkenau.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------De dataset bestaat uit dertien interviews met overlevenden van de opstand die op 14 oktober 1943 uitbrak in vernietigingskamp Sobibor. Daarnaast zijn interviews te zien met twee Poolse omwonenden en een overlevende van de opstand in het crematorium van Auschwitz-Birkenau.De interviews variëren in lengte van tien minuten tot twee uur en zijn Engels en Nederlands ondertiteld.De interviews zijn afgenomen in 1983/84 door Jules Schelvis m.m.v. Dunya Breur voor zijn onderzoek naar vernietigingskamp Sobibor.In vernietigingskamp Sobibor (Oost-Polen) zijn ongeveer 170.000 joden uit heel Europa...