2020 Tolerance Week Events Cancelled Due to Corona Virus
With the closing of schools in Iowa, we had no choice but to cancel all of the events of Tolerance Week. Once the dust settles, we will explore the possibility of rescheduling, depending upon schedules of the school systems and our special guests.
read more2020 Tolerance Week Essay and Ella Holtzen Art Contests Theme Announced
The Tolerance Week Essay Contest and the Ella Holtzen Memorial Tolerance Week Art Contest theme is as follows: Please express in words or art how the practice of Tolerance will make the world a better place. Please limit essays to 400 words and artwork to 11x14"....
read moreAbove and Beyond to be screened at Sioux City Museum
Above and Beyond will be screened at the Sioux City Museum at 12:00 Noon on Tuesday, March 31. A light lunch will be served. Seating is limited to the first 80 RSVPs. To reserve your seat, please RSVP to the Sioux City Museum at 279-6174. City of Hope: Resurrection...
read moreFour Teachers have attended the Paper Clips Teacher’s Workshop, thanks to the Dr. Mike Rogers Scholarship for Tolerance Education
Gabriel Bauman, Kristi Kleene, Sonja Grimsley and Denise Broermann have attended the Paper Clips workshop over the last two summers. The trip is made possible by the Tolerance Week Dr. Mike Rogers Scholarship for Tolerance Education. In 2020, 8th grade students will...
read moreFacing Fear Documentary to be shown at WITCC
The documentary Facing Fear will be shown in the Cargill Auditorium at WITCC on Monday, March 30, in partnership with Tolerance Week and the Lifelong Learning Institute. A discussion will follow led by Karen Marckey, Director of the Sioux City Human Rights...
read moreWho Will Write Our History and film maker Roberta Grossman to be Tolerance Week 2020 Main Event
On Wednesday, April 1 at 7:30pm, the documentary Who Will Write Our History will be shown at the Sioux City Orpheum Theatre. Following the screening, writer, producer and director Roberta Grossman will speak. In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews...
read moreThe 2019 Tolerance Week Art and Essay Contest
This years theme is "I am the Witness" Most of the area's middle and high school students have met a Holocaust Survivor and heard their stories. Some of you have met Auschwitz Survivor Philip Gans and some of you have met Terezin Survivor Inge Auerbacher. It is now...
read moreWho Will Write Our History Documentary Screening
Monday, April 8, 2019, 6:30 pm WITCC Lifelong Learning, Cargill Auditorium Documentary Screening “Who Will Write Our History” In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders...
read moreA Thousand Kisses, an Animated Short Film
Wednesday, April 10, Noon Sioux City Public Museum Midwest Premiere of the Animated Short Film, A Thousand Kisses Lunch will be served, attendance is limited to the first 80 RSVPs to the Museum at 279-6174 A Thousand Kisses is animated short film created from love...
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Paper Clips Principal Linda Hooper to Headline Main Event
It was the film “Paper Clips” that inspired the first Tolerance Week events in 2005. The Weiners saw the film and were so moved by its message that they felt it was essential viewing, but as it was a small documentary, they knew the odds were against it...
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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 featuring Israeli second-generation violinmaker...
read moreThe Sioux Tolerance Week Exhibit opening at the Museum
Tuesday, April 10 - 12 Noon - Sioux City Public Museum The opening of The Sioux City Tolerance Week exhibit. A light lunch will be served, RSVP to the Sioux City Museum at 279-6174. Admission is limited to the first 90 RSVPs. The exhibit will be displayed during the...
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Joachim Prinz – I Shall Not Be Silent Documentary Screening at WITCC
Monday, April 9 - 6:30 - WITCC Lifelong Learning in the Cargill Auditorium Screening of the documentary Joachim Prinz - I Shall Not Be Silent In Berlin in the 1930’s, the civil rights of Jews were systematically stripped away. A young rabbi refused to be silent. His...
read moreArea 8th Graders to Attend I am a Star: The Songs and Poems of Inge Auerbacher
Area 8th grade students will attend a performance of I am a Star: The Songs and Poems of Inge Auerbacher featuring members of the Sioux City Community Youth Theatre singing original music and the poetry of Terezin Survivor Inge Auerbacher. Ms Auerbacher will guide the...
read moreMain Event: I am a Star: The Songs and Poems of Inge Auerbacher
We are delighted to welcome Inge Auerbacher back to Sioux City for opening night of I am a Star: The Songs and Poems of Inge Auerbacher featuring members of the Sioux City Community Youth Theatre singing original music and the poetry of Terezin Survivor Inge...
read more2018 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 contest is open to middle and high school students....
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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 main event at the Sioux City Orpheum Theatre...
read moreDr. Mike Rogers Recieved 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...
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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 1948, just three years after the liberation of...
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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 own political, social, and economic problems,...
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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 the Holocaust. The collection was gathered to...
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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 one of the child survivors of Terezin, Inge...
read moreInge 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 Museum on the campus of USD at 7:00pm on Wednesday,...
read moreA Conversation with Inge Auerbacher, Child Holocaust Survivor at USD
We are happy to announce a partnership this year with the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of South Dakota. They are celebrating Yiddish Arts, Culture and History all semester. As part of that celebration, Ms. Auerbacher will speak at 10:00 on...
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Art and Essay Contest Theme Announced
You are the future. Use words or art supplies to show what you want that future to be. Essays must be limited to 400 words or less. Artwork must be limited to 11" x 14" or smaller. Entries can be emailed to grlindblade@gmail.com or dropped off at 1922 Pierce Street...
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