Paul A. Levine

Paul A. Levine (31 December 1956 – 28 October 2019) was an American–Swedish Holocaust and genocide historian, co-author of a widely used Swedish textbook on the subject.

Levine received a Doctor of Philosophy in history from Uppsala University in 1996.

[1] He was a co-founder of Uppsala University's Hugo Valentin Centre for Holocaust & Genocide Studies,[2] 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.

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.