How a Jew Kurt Lewin had become an Ukrainian Roman-Pavlo Mykytka.
Andrey and Klymentiy Sheptytslyys, monks-studits, saved tens of Jews from fascist genocide.

Kurt Lewin’s book “Journey through illusions”, devoted to the Holocaust in Lviv, was presented at Lviv Regional Jewish Charitable Foundation “Hesed-Arieh”. Its 83 years old author , who resides in the USA, tells about Sheptytskyys’ brothers- Andrey and Klymentiy, as well as about monks-studits, who saved his life during the war. Kurt Lewin named his own sons Andrey and Klymentiy. He works on the recognition of  Andrey Sheptytskyy as Righteous Among the Nations of the World.

 

The first memoirs about the Holocaust and the ghetto by Kurt Lewin  were written in Spain in 1945-1946. They were translated into Hebrew and were published in Tel-Aviv in 1947. This story arose big interest among the readers of different nationalities and because of Arabic-Israeli war with time has been forgotten. In 1992 the author decided to complete his memoirs. In two years he edited “Journey through illusions” in English.