“The purpose of the book is to provide the readers with the opportunity to find out what really happened during the Shoah in Lithuania and to grasp its terrible consequences, scale, and the role of individual factors in it.”
The Book of Sorrow
“This is a book about the Holocaust, the unprecedented extermination of about 6 million Jews, including more than 200,000 from Lithuania, during the World War II. Let it serve as a modest monument to the annihilated Lithuanian Jewish community as well as a grave accusation against the organizers and executors of the systematic destruction of the Jewish people.“
Key accomplishments
- Revival of Lithuania’s Jewish Community (LJC) -former active LJC Board member
- Establishment of LJC Jewish Museum and Holocaust Section (the Green House)
- Discovering and marking mass graves of Lithuanian Jewry (worked closely with local municipalities in finding and marking mass graves of Holocaust massacre; documented the work done which resulted in The Book of Sorrow)
- Inspecting, inventorizing and protecting the old Jewish cemeteries of Lithuania (worked closely with local municipalities in finding and marking the old Jewish cemeteries; part of the abovementioned work done was presented in The Book of Sorrow)
- Mounting major historic exhibits (Butrimonys)
- Combating Holocaust Revisionism and “Double Genocide” with the facts (wrote about it in the book The Shoah in Lithuania, 2006)
Media
Interviews:
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE ONLINE. Interview: Josef Levinson (visit article)
A Trip Down Memory Lane: an interview with Joseph Levinson (visit article)
Publications:
Joseph Levinson, 93, Holocaust Historian, Honored in London; But Q & A session is manipulated by translator (visit the article)
2010 Sept 2 Jewish News On Levinson
2011 Feb Chersonski on Levinson
Joseph_Levinson at London Central Synagogue by Joseph_Levinson
The Shoah (Holocaust) in Lithuania (PDF version)
The Book of Sorrow (PDF Format)
The Shoah (Holocaust) in Lithuania
The Book of Sorrow (ePUB format)
The Book of Sorrow (MOBI format)