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We are sad to inform you, that Dr. Paul Levine, a famous scientist and the Holocaust researcher suddenly died a few days ago in Berlin (Germany). He was an associate professor and senior lecturer at the Hugo Valentin Centre of Uppsala university (Sweden), specialized in the Holocaust history and memory.

Since the dissertation defense in 1996 on “From indifference to action: Swedish diplomacy and the Holocaust of 1938-1944”, P. Levine published numerous articles on various aspects of the Holocaust history and memory, including – division of “Observer” in the Oxford guide on the Holocaust studies (London, 2010). His monograph “Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: myth, history and the Holocaust” (London, 2010) was translated into Swedish and published in Lund in 2011.

Dr. Levine came to us to “Tkuma” Institute and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” twice, – for the first time it was on February, 2013, at the students debate tournament “Dnipro Open” opening, which we conducted in cooperation with the organization “New Vision”, and to communicate with Ukrainian teachers, who study the history of the Holocaust with students.

Exactly in February we decided to make the Ukrainian version of the famous book by Stéphane Bruchfeld and Paul Levine “Tell Ye Your Children...” The Book about the Holocaust in Europe in 1933-1945”. This book, first published 20 years ago, is now published in many languages around the world and continues to be a highly effective educational tool and platform for children, parents, teachers, schools and universities. Each of the dozens of countries where the book was published included a special section written by local historians about the particularities of the Holocaust in that country.

Paul Levine came to our “Tkuma” Institute to Dnipro, to discuss future book, visited наш Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”.

In 2018, “TELL YE YOR CHILDREN…”: THE BOOK ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST IN EUROPE IN1933– 1945” FOR THE FIRST TIME WAS PUBLISHED IN UKRAINIAN BY “TKUMA” INSTITUTE; the book includes two chapters written by Igor Shchupak on the history of the Jews of Ukraine and the Holocaust events in the Ukrainian territory. Currently, this is a tutorial recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, is very popular among Ukrainian educators. Obviously, this book is the best memory of a famous Swedish scientist and history promoter …

We would like to express our condolences to Dr. P. Levine family and friends.

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