Sobibor transport lists

The Jules Schelvis collection at NIOD in Amsterdam, archive files 55 to 58 and 60 to 63.

Search the 34,218 people on these lists by name, street or town.

Between March 2 and July 20, 1943, nineteen trains took 34,313 Jews from the Westerbork camp in the Netherlands to Sobibor in occupied Poland. Most were murdered in the gas chambers within hours of arriving. Eighteen of them survived the war.

These eight files from the Jules Schelvis collection at NIOD hold the lists of the people on all nineteen trains. Every page is shown whole, beside a transcription and an English translation, with the people it names.

The transcriptions and translations were made by machine and haven't been checked line by line. Names and dates keep the spelling on the page, including the typists' errors. Where the text and the scan differ, the scan is right. How this reader was made explains each step.

The June 8, 1943 list in file 60 isn't a 1943 document. It's a later typed list sorted by age group and sex, with no addresses. No original list for that transport is in these files.

The nineteen transports

People are counted once, on the train they left on. The published totals are from Elie A. Cohen, De negentien treinen naar Sobibor (1981), p. 23.

Departure	File	Pages	People	Published total
March 2, 1943	55	12 to 43	1,102	1,105
March 10, 1943	55	47 to 78	1,104	1,105
March 17, 1943	55	109 to 136	964	964
March 23, 1943	55	140 to 175	1,250	1,250
March 30, 1943	56	2 to 37	1,250	1,255
April 6, 1943	56	72 to 129	2,016	2,020
April 13, 1943	56	134 to 171	1,197	1,204
April 20, 1943	56	175 to 208	1,166	1,166
April 27, 1943	57	3 to 37	1,204	1,204
May 4, 1943	57	41 to 74	1,185	1,187
May 11, 1943	57	77 to 118	1,445	1,446
May 18, 1943	57	122 to 189	2,506	2,511
May 25, 1943	57	194 to 267	2,853	2,862
June 1, 1943	58	71 to 133	3,006	3,006
June 8, 1943	60	2 to 77	3,007	3,017
June 29, 1943	58	136 to 194	2,389	2,397
July 6, 1943	61	2 to 74	2,415	2,417
July 13, 1943	62	57 to 163	1,969	1,988
July 20, 1943	63	58 to 176	2,195	2,209

Other material in these files

The files also hold second copies of several lists, made town by town or alphabetically, later lists compiled from them, and Jules Schelvis's own covers, notes and letters.

File	Read	What it holds
55	Open file 55	Title pages, tally sheets, a Red Cross letter, and lists grouped by age and sex accompany the March transport lists.
56	Open file 56	Title pages, age and sex lists, working notes, a fax and letter, and name indexes accompany the March and April lists.
57	Open file 57	Covers, title pages, totals, counts by town, and departure-list fragments accompany the April and May lists.
58	Open file 58	Another copy of the June 1, 1943 departure lists sits with crossed-out registration numbers and title pages for June 1 and June 29.
60	Open file 60	Schelvis accounts and lists of children from Vught and Westerbork group names by age, sex, and birth date.
61	Open file 61	More copies of the July 6, 1943 departure lists sit with title pages, working notes, and counts by town and surname letter.
62	Open file 62	Another copy of the July 13, 1943 departure lists sits with title pages and counts by town and surname letter.
63	Open file 63	Another copy of the July 20, 1943 departure lists sits with a cover note, title pages, and Westerbork counts.