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Special Tolerance Week Event to Celebrate the 20th Anniversary
In honor of the 20th anniversary of Tolerance Week, please join us for an encore performance of “Rise: A Journey of Spiritual Resistance.” This unforgettable evening of music, poetry, and remembrance, presented by Ryan H...
Theme for 2025 Tolerance Week Written Word and Ella Holtzen Memorial Art Contest Announced.
This year’s theme for Tolerance Week is “I am the Witness.” Most of the area’s middle and high school students have had the opportunity to meet a Holocaust survivor and hear their stories. Some of you have met Auschwitz ...
Holocaust Rails Exhibit open weekends only through May
The Holocaust Rails exhibit has been open for pre-arranged field trips for the last few weeks. The exhibit will be open to the public on Saturdays from 10-4 and on Sundays from 12-4. After school is out, we will return t...
Students to See Kristallnacht Production, Meet Inge Auerbacher and Hear Elyn Shindler Moldow on Wednesday, April 10
Wednesday morning, April 10th, at 9:30, 1,800 8th graders from 3 states, 8 communities, and 9 schools will be bussed to the Orpheum Theatre, to attend a special presentation. This event is free and open to the public. Th...
2023 Ella Holtzen Memorial Art and Tolerance Week Essay Contests Winners
Charlotte Peterson wins the art contest; Josue Rodriguez wins the essay contest.
Themes announced for Tolerance Week Essay and Ella Holtzen Memorial Art Contests
Please give examples in words or art how we can live a more tolerant life, improving our part of the world. Please limit essays to 400 words and artwork to 11×14″. Email entries to grlindblade@gmail.com or deliver to 192...
Holocaust Rails Exhibit Taking Shape
The transformation of Bay 6 in the Roundhouse at the Sioux City Railroad Museum is almost complete. With the anticipated opening in Spring 2023, visitors will be able to walk through the ominous archway and be transporte...
Tolerance Week event changes announced as work on the Railcar Holocaust Exhibit continues
During this important transition year for Tolerance Week, the schedule will look a little different from past years. Unfortunately, Terezin Camp Survivor Inge Auerbacher is currently unable to travel due to persistent ba...
Theme for 2022 Tolerance Week Written Word and Ella Holtzen Memorial Art Contest Announced.
Please give examples in words or art how we can live a more Tolerant life, improving our part of the world. Please limit essays to 400 words and artwork to 11×14″. Email entries to grlindblade@gmail.com or deliver to 192...
Tolerance Week to Create a Holocaust Railcar Exhibit at the Sioux City Railroad Museum
For 17 years, Tolerance Week has been focused on events taking place one week each Spring. Events have included visits by Holocaust survivors, film screenings, theatrical and musical performances, targeted at Siouxland e...
Isabel Martinez Receives Special Award of Excellence for 2020 Essay
Along with many other spring events, Tolerance Week was cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak. Casualties of the cancellation were the Tolerance Week Essay Contest and the Ella Holtzen Tolerance Week Art Cont...
Winners of the Ella Holtzen Memorial Art Contest Announced
Abby Demars from Holy Cross School is the winner of the Ella Holtzen Memorial Tolerance Week Art Contest. There were four Honorable Mentions.