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Violins of Hope Documentary Screening in the Orpheum Lobby

Tuesday, April 10 – 6:30 – Sioux City Orpheum Theatre Lobby Screening of the PBS documentary Violins of Hope Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust, narrated by Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody, is a documentary feat...

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2018 Art and Essay Contest

There will be a pre-Tolerance Week art and essay contest. This contest is designed to have the youth participants reflect on the current state of intolerance and hatred through their writings and works of art. The contes...

A dark propeller airplane flies low over a grassy field beneath a gray sky.

Above and Beyond was screened at Mid America Air Museum

Above and Beyond was screened at the Mid America Air Museum on Wednesday, April 5 at 6:30pm. More than 80 attended, The colors were presented by American Legion Post 662 and Rochele Clark sang the national anthem. In 194...

PBS “America and the Holocaust” poster with the Statue of Liberty and a yellow Star of David badge.

America and the Holocaust was screened at WITCC

As part of Tolerance Week the PBS American Experience documentary America and the Holocaust, Deceit and Indifference was shown on Monday, April 3 at 6:30 pm in the Cargill Auditorium. In 1938, American society had its ow...

Four adults pose in a gymnasium while one holds a clear rectangular award.

Dr. Mike Rogers Received the 2017 Courage to Teach Award

Dr. Mike Rogers, principal at East Middle School was the winner of the 2017 Tolerance Week Courage to Teach award. It was presented before Inge Auerbacher spoke to 8th graders there on Tuesday, April 4.

An older woman sits holding up an illustrated book with a yellow star on its cover.

Opening Night of “The Star on My Heart” is signature event

We are very pleased tp celebrate the continued relationship with the Sioux City Community Theatre and very special collaboration for Tolerance Week, 2017. By special arrangement with the Sioux City Community Theatre, the...

Poster reading “The Star on My Heart” above a heart divided by a Star of David.

Area 8th graders attended live performance at the Orpheum

Area 8th grade students attended the Sioux City Community Theatre’s Children’s production of The Star on My Heart” at the Orpheum Theatre on Thursday, April 6 at 9:30 in the morning. The Star on My Heart is the story of ...

Three framed handwritten pages hang vertically on a gallery wall.

Diaries of Humanity Holocaust Exhibit at the Sioux City Museum

The Diaries of Humanity will be hung at the Sioux City Museum during the month of April. The Diaries of Humanity Holocaust exhibit is a collection of diaries or handwritten notes from a variety of areas in Europe during ...

Three women talk beside a glass instrument case in a museum gallery.

Inge Auerbacher presented at the National Music Museum

As part of the University of South Dakota’s semester-long celebration of Yiddish Arts, Culture and History, Ms. Auerbacher presented Music as memory: A child of the Holocaust remembers in song at the National Music Museu...

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A Conversation with Inge Auerbacher, Child Holocaust Survivor at USD

Inge Auerbacher spoke at the University of South Dakota during its semester-long celebration of Yiddish Arts, Culture and History.

Mounted butterfly artwork with torn text, a red Nazi flag motif, and a printed first-place label.

Art and Essay Contest Theme Announced

The 2017 art and essay contest invited students to show the future they wanted through words or art.

Holocaust Rails exhibit and Tolerance Alliance news

Philip Gans is no longer able to travel to Sioux City

Mr. Gans is no longer able to travel to Sioux City. If you would like him to contact him or send him a card, call 712-255-4346 for the address.