Museum of Tolerance

09/03/2026

California’s history is filled with stories of people who challenged injustice and helped move the country forward.

At the Museum of Tolerance, Para Todos Los Niños — For All the Children brings visitors closer to one of those stories: the fight for educational equality led by Latino families in Southern California nearly a decade before Brown v. Board of Education.

Through photographs, archival materials, and replicas, the exhibition explores Mendez et al. v. Westminster and the multiracial coalition of parents, lawyers, and activists who challenged school segregation in Orange County. The case helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional nationwide.

Their courage left a lasting legacy of social activism and helped carry the battle for equality far beyond California.

09/03/2026

Step into Witness to Truth, a powerful portrait exhibition at the Museum of Tolerance honoring Holocaust survivors who have shared their testimonies and helped ensure their stories are never forgotten.

Among the more than 100 survivors featured is Gabriella Karin.

As a Jewish girl in Bratislava during the N**i occupation of Czechoslovakia, Gabriella and her family were forced into hiding. For nine months, they lived concealed in a small apartment directly across the street from the N**i-Slovak Gestapo. They survived with the courageous help of Karol Blanar, who risked his own safety to protect them.

Gabriella has since dedicated her life to Holocaust education, sharing her testimony as a docent and speaker with audiences around the world. She is also an acclaimed sculptor whose work confronts the horrors of the Holocaust while expressing hope for a more peaceful future.

Witness to Truth, photographed by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Marissa Roth, preserves the presence and stories of survivors like Gabriella whose voices continue to shape the Museum’s work.

Visit the Museum of Tolerance to experience Witness to Truth and learn how the Museum equips individuals to confront antisemitism and all forms of hate, inspires empathy, and promotes civic engagement to help build a more tolerant world.

09/01/2026

87 years ago today, N**i Germany invaded Poland, beginning World War II in Europe.

Under N**i occupation, Jewish people were systematically stripped of their rights, isolated from society, displaced, and forced into ghettos as persecution escalated toward mass murder. Millions of Polish civilians also endured terror, displacement, and forced labor.

Remembering September 1 means understanding how antisemitism, hatred, and dehumanization can escalate into persecution and violence, and why the choices people make in the face of injustice matter.

The Museum of Tolerance preserves and teaches this history to inspire empathy, confront antisemitism and all forms of hate, and help build a more tolerant world.

08/19/2026

As the N**is rose to power in Germany, Hollywood faced a choice between principle and profit.

"Hollywood and Hi**er" reveals how studios altered scripts, cut sensitive scenes, avoided anti-N**i and pro-Jewish material, and even consulted representatives of the Reich—all to preserve access to the lucrative overseas box office.

At the heart of the story is Leon Lewis, a Jewish American lawyer who organized an undercover network to monitor N**i activity in Los Angeles and warn Hollywood and Washington.

Join us at the Museum of Tolerance for a special screening, followed by a conversation with filmmakers Clara and Julia Kuperberg and historian and "Hi**er in Los Angeles" author Steven J. Ross, moderated by David Suissa, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Tribe Media/Jewish Journal.

📅 Wednesday, August 26 at 7 PM
📍 Museum of Tolerance | Los Angeles (free underground parking)

Limited tickets available. Click here to reserve your seat→
https://museumoftolerance.com/event/screening-hollywoodandhitler

07/23/2026

Today, we remember the victims of the Treblinka concentration camp. On the morning of July 23, 1942, the first transport of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto reached the camp. It carried 7,400 people. Most were murdered upon arrival.

That day marked the beginning of the killing operations at Treblinka, part of Operation Reinhard, the N**i plan to exterminate the Jews of occupied Poland. Daily transports followed for weeks. During the fifteen months the camp operated, an estimated 800,000 to 900,000 people were murdered there, making it the second-deadliest killing site of the Holocaust after Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles preserves this history to teach future generations. We teach tolerance and educate about the past so we can confront hatred and help prevent the horrors of the Holocaust from being repeated.

07/21/2026

The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance invite you to join us on Tisha B’Av for a special screening of Legend of Destruction.

The film tells the story of the Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire that escalated into a devastating civil war, ending in the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple in 70 CE.

🗓️ Thursday, July 23
🕖 3:00 PM
📍Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles, 9786 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035

Get tickets here: https://bit.ly/4fgr4rS

A four-time Israeli Academy Award winner, this cinematic marvel is composed entirely of 1,500 vivid and haunting original paintings, brought to life by a star-studded voice cast featuring Oscar Isaac, Evangeline Lilly, Elliott Gould and Billy Zane.

07/17/2026

07/03/2026

This July 4th, the Museum of Tolerance honors the story behind the Mauthausen flag. The flag was secretly sewn by inmates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in anticipation of their liberation by American forces.

Inmates used a sewing machine in a workshop where prisoners had previously been forced to sew N**i uniforms, obtaining sheets from the SS laundry for the background and N**i banners for the red stripes. Not knowing the exact number of stars to affix, they sewed on 56 and waited for the American soldiers who, they prayed, might save them.

On May 5, 1945, U.S. military forces liberated Mauthausen, and the flag was presented to their liberator, Colonel Richard Seibel, who flew it over the camp. After the war, Seibel gave the flag to liberated inmate Simon Wiesenthal, the renowned N**i Hunter.

"Every star on the American flag stood for something precious we had lost: one for hope, one for freedom, one for justice," recalled Wiesenthal.

On Independence Day, the Mauthausen flag reminds us of what America represented to those who had lost everything and of our responsibility to uphold its promise of freedom and equality for all.

Stay tuned for when the Mauthausen Flag is back on display in "The Greatest Generation" case at the Museum of Tolerance, where we continue educating visitors on the Holocaust to teach tolerance.

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06/30/2026

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Every role contributes to a larger mission: educating future generations, confronting hate and antisemitism, defending democratic values, and inspiring action through education and advocacy.

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06/26/2026

On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and commit to keeping their stories alive.

Torture was woven into every stage of the N**i regime's Final Solution. It began before the death camps, in the streets of annexed cities, where Jews were publicly degraded and stripped of their humanity. In the camps, they were subjected to inhumane conditions, brutal forced labor, and for most, death.

At the Museum of Tolerance's Holocaust exhibit, visitors are led back in time to witness how discrimination, dehumanization, and propaganda gave way to persecution, ghettos, camps, and the systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of others.

On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we are reminded that educating the world about the Holocaust is not just a historical obligation; it is how we build a more tolerant future.