Tell Ye Your Children... A Book about the Holocaust in Europe, 1933- 1945
# Tell Ye Your Children... A Book about the Holocaust in Europe, 1933- 1945

“Tell Ye Your Children... A Book about the Holocaust in Europe, 1933- 1945” is a textbook on the Holocaust written by Stéphane Bruchfeld and Paul A. Levine. The textbook is used in more than twenty countries as part of their effort to educate about the darkest event that happened in Modern Europe.

The book, first published in 1998 by the Swedish government, was commissioned as part of a national educational campaign, to teach Swedish citizens about the Holocaust. The book was the first major project, initiated by former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson in 1997. During a parliamentary debate in June 1997, Prime Minister Göran Persson initiated an information campaign about the Holocaust - what really happened and what values and attitudes led to the disaster. The project was named “Living History”. The book exists in: Swedish, English, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, French, German, Ukrainian, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian (and Russian for the Latvian government), Japanese, Spanish, “Serbo-Croatian”, Turkish, Farsi, Kurdish & Arabic, and Russian.

## Content

The book’s title is based on a quotation from the Bible, Book of Joel 1:2-3. The title tells the purpose, which is to help parents discussing a very complicated and difficult historical subject with their children. This book presents facts about the Holocaust and attempts to explain how the unimaginable became reality.

The book is not strictly chronological: it is both chronological and thematic. Over decades, the book has been used in many countries, most often by teachers and students from middle-school through graduate Holocaust history and Genocide Studies seminars.

