Paul A. Levine

Paul A. Levine born in New York City and raised in Covina California, was an American-Swedish Holocaust and Genocide Historian, an associate professor and Docent of Holocaust and modern European political history. He was a Co-founder of Uppsala University's Hugo Valentin Centre for Holocaust & Genocide Studies,[1] and the author of many publications on Holocaust history and memory. After receiving his doctorate in 1996 with the monograph From Indifference to Activism; Swedish Diplomacy and the Holocaust, 1938– 1944,.[2] Levine pursued his work in Uppsala, Sweden. His main preoccupation was writing and teaching about the Holocaust. Working on his book, Raoul Wallenberg and Swedish diplomacy in Budapest in 1944–1945, Levine helped to understand Raoul Wallenberg in his real context, destroying existing myths about the Swedish hero.[3] Tell Ye Your Children, by Stéphane Bruchfeld and Paul A. Levine, remains the second most printed book in Sweden after The Bible. The authors were able to distill large historical, historiographical, biographical, and graphic elements into a format and language which has appealed to both diplomats and middle-school students. The book has been used in university courses, in public and private school classrooms, for adult education, and by union-organizations. First published in 1998 by the Swedish government, the book was commissioned as part of a national educational campaign to educate Swedish citizens about the Holocaust. Holocaust historian Prof. Yehuda Bauer called it "The best book on the Holocaust for its length and goals". Most significantly, that book led directly to the formation, in 1999, of what was initially the International Task Force on Holocaust Research, Remembrance and Education. That international diplomatic body evolved into the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. from March 2019 it consists of 31 member countries, two liaisons and eight observer countries.[4] His life in Europe where he examined and researched, over several decades, European bureaucratic indifference and activism in WW2. After a long career as an associate professor of Holocaust History and Genocide Studies, he lived the final six years of his life in Berlin, his favorite city, working as a freelance historian. Professor Levine always said that he wants to die and be buried in Berlin, the city most close to his heart and to his research; "The Belle & The Beast", as he called it, with love and sympathy.

At the time of his death, Levine was working on a memoir and teacher's guide, hoping to instruct educators how to think and teach about the Holocaust and about genocide in a progressive and humanistic manner. His work also made a significant contribution to the study and explanation of the Armenian Genocide. The student initiative Paul A. Levine Library was established in 2020 in Berlin.

• The Raoul Wallenberg Centennial Medal 2012, Awarded in Buenos Aires for my book—"Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest; Myth, History & Holocaust" (2010), by the Raoul Wallenberg International Foundation; Buenos Aires, November 2012. This prize was supported by the Swedish Embassy, Bueno Aires.
• The Martin H:son Holmdahl Award, with Stéphane Bruchfeld, for service to Uppsala University and to Holocaust education and research in Sweden. Jan 2010.
• The Holocaust Survivors Organization of Sweden's Annual Prize for contributions to Holocaust Education". January 2010.
• Erasmus Teaching Exchange Stipend; Teaching, Course in Genocide Studies, with seminars & advising students during a two-week exchange. Charles University, Institute of Political Science, March 2013.
• Erasmus Teaching Exchange Stipend; Teaching, Teaching of Holocaust History, conducting seminars & advising students during a two-week exchange. Magnus Vytutas University & Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Kaunas & Vilnius, Lithuania, Sept. 2010.
• Book of the Year Award, Ord och Bild academi, for "Tell Ye Your Children…", Stockholm, 1999.
• Erzählt es euren Kindern; Der Holocaust in Europa, Short Listed for, "Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis, Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e. V. (sachbuch), Frankfurt Book Fair, 2001.

• Bystanders to the Holocaust; A Re-Evaluation, (Frank Cass, London), 2002. Levine, Paul A., introduction and conclusion.
• Karlsson, Klas-Göran, "Tell Ye Your Children…": The Twisted Swedish Road to Holocaust Recognition, in SCANDINAVIAN-CANADIAN STUDIES/ÉTUDES SCANDINAVES AU CANADA Vol. 23 (2016) pp. 78–94.
• "Raoul Wallenberg and Swedish Humanitarian Policy in Budapest", in Reaching a State of Hope; Refugees, Immigrants, and the Swedish Welfare State, 1930– 2000", M. Byström & P. Frohnert (eds.), (Lund, 2013).
• "Sweden’s Complicated Neutrality and the Rescue of Denmark’s Jews", The Routledge History of the Holocaust, Friedman, J.C. (ed.)
• The Lessons of Nazism: Swedish Experiences in the Wake of the Second World War, with an English summary], (Stockholm: Atlantis)
• “Teaching about “The Perpetrator” in a Global Context”, Forum21: European Journal on Child and Youth Policy, Council of Europe, August 2009.
• “Sweden”, “Denmark", "Norway", "Raoul Wallenberg", four entries on these subjects to "Dictionnaire de la Shoah", Larousse Publishers, Paris (2009).
• "One Day during the Holocaust; An Analysis of Raoul Wallenberg’s Budapest report of 12 September 1944", in R. Björk, Alf W. Johansson (eds), Samtidshistoria och politik, (Stockholm, 2004).
• Dagens Nyheter, Om detta ville Paul A Levine berätta, 2019-11-17.
• Andersson, Lars M., „Paul A. Levine in memoriam", 2019-11-17.
• Yehuda Bauer, IHRA, Task Force on Holocaust Research, WW2, Genocide Studies.

• Bruchfeld, Stéphane, and Paul A. Levine. …om detta må ni berätta… En bok om Förintelsen i Europa 1933–1945. Stockholm: Levande historia, 1998, online on 17.10.2020,
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341344655_Sweden's_New_Holocaust_Museum_A_Site_of_Conversation_as_well_as_Conservation/ Martinez, Victoria, Sweden's New Holocaust Museum: A Site of Conversation, as well as Conservation, 1 January 2020,]
• Keep telling the story,
• IHRA,
• Raoul Wallenberg-stiftelsens medalj till uppsalahistorikern Paul A. Levine“, 19 oktober 2012,
• Raoul Wallenberg i nytt ljus, 17 mars 2010,
• "The Hugo Valentin Lectures, VIII–IX“,
• "Hugo Valentin-föreläsningen 2014: Professor Dan Michman“, March 6, 2014,
• Uppsala University’s Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala historian Paul A. Levine awarded Raoul Wallenberg Foundation medal,
• Brown, Rob, The Swedish Schindler who disappeared, BBC World Service, 1.02.2015, Dr. Paul Levine spoke to Witness on the BBC World Service, Released On 16 Jan 2015, last online on 17.10.2020.
• Paul A. Levine library, Berlin