Events

Upcoming Events

The Museum of Tolerance is more than a place to visit — it’s a space for dialogue, reflection, and action. Our events bring people together to explore pressing social issues, learn from powerful voices, and celebrate stories that inspire change. From lectures and film screenings to community conversations and cultural programs, each gathering is designed to challenge perspectives, foster understanding, and spark meaningful connections.

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Speaker Series

Meyer Shwarzstein

Hear from Witness to Truth speakers as they share personal accounts—either their own or their parent’s experiences during the Holocaust.

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Location

Museum of Tolerance
Hertz Theater

Included with Admission

About

Meyer tells the story of his mother, Donia Gold Shwarzstein. Donia was a survivor from Rohatyn, Poland, now western Ukraine. Most of her family was murdered. Donia was first inspired to become actively involved in organizing and speaking about the Holocaust when the Nazis threatened to march in Skokie, Illinois in 1976.

 

For over three decades, Holocaust Survivors have volunteered their time at the Museum of Tolerance to speak about their experiences during World War II. Over 50,000 visitors per year meet and hear a Holocaust survivor or 2nd generation speaker. These speakers are ambassadors of memory, hope, and tolerance.

The Museum of Tolerance is proud to present live testimonies each week. Hear from Witness to Truth speakers as they share personal accounts—either their own or their parent’s experiences during the Holocaust.

Included with admission. Each session includes a Q&A.

 

 

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Education Program

Rooted and Targeted: Teaching Jewish and Black Life, Antisemitism, Anti-Blackness, and the Cities We Inherit

In partnership with TOLI, This five-day seminar invites educators to rethink how they teach history and identity. The program begins with everyday life — community, culture, and the richness of Jewish and Black experiences — and then examines the legal, social, and institutional systems that made exclusion, discrimination, and erasure possible, both historically – through the histories of the Holocaust, domestic slave trade and lynching – and today.

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