Sidsel Levin was born in exile in Sweden in November 1944. Her parents, Solveig and Robert Levin along with their eldest daughter Mona, had avoided arrest and deportation by fleeing to Sweden two years earlier. Sidsel grew up in Frogner in Oslo. For many years she ran a musical kindergarten in Bærum, outside of Oslo. In 1971 she created, along with her sister Mona, the children’s television program “Stian med sekken”. Sidsel was one of the initiators behind the establishment of the Oslo Jewish Museum, and became, after its official opening in 2008, the museum’s director. She’s an active social debater and lecturer and has, after her retirement as director in 2015, continued her work as an active participant to, and contributor of, the dissemination of Jewish history in Norway.