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Dov Levin (1925 Kaunas – 2016 Jerusalem) was an Israeli historian who specialized in the study of the history of the Jew in Lithuania and the other Baltic States during the Holocaust. Levin studied at the Svabes Hebrew Gymnasium in Kaunas (until its closure in 1940 by the Soviets), and in 1941 finished the Sholem Aleichem Yiddish School. In his youth, Dov Levin was a member of Hashomer Hatzair, the Jewish Socialist-Zionist youth movement. After the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, he was interned in the Kaunas Ghetto together with his father, mother, and twin sister, none of whom survived. In the ghetto he joined the underground Zionist organization, and later joined the partisans in Vilnius area forests. After the Holocaust he was involved in Aliyah Bet activities until he immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1945 and fought in the War of Independence. He was a soldier guard on the Mt. Scopus enclave after the war. After his IDF discharge, he worked as a social worker. In 1971 he received his PhD in history from the Hebrew University, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chicago and taught at the Hebrew University. He was one of the founders and director of the Oral History Division of the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University. Among Prof. Dov Levin's many published books and articles is Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Nazis 1941-1945 (1985), for which he was awarded the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize in Military History. The private collection of Dov Levin includes his extensive correspondence from his life in Lithuania and Israel. It also contains interviews that he conducted, press clippings, index cards, rare photographs from the Holocaust and photocopies of historical sources from the Holocaust. The collection contains various articles on Jews in the Baltics and the Soviet Union during the Holocaust, Dov Levin’s numerous articles, drafts of his books and works. In addition, the collection includes articles about Dov Levin, and materials related to his public activities in the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel. The collection is not fully catalogued (2021) --
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