Museum of Tolerance

08/19/2026

As the N***s 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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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.

06/18/2026

In N**i concentration camps, prisoners were stripped of their identities and reduced to a color-coded system of triangles sewn onto their uniforms. Each color designated a category: red for political prisoners, green for criminals, purple for Jehovah's Witnesses, and black for those deemed "asocial."

Gay men had to wear a pink triangle pointing downward, marking them as criminals under Germany's Paragraph 175. Around 15,000 men were sent to concentration camps, and many lost their lives.

The uniform displayed here belonged to a political prisoner, identified by the red triangle and prisoner number on the chest. The classification chart shows how the N***s reduced human beings to categories on paper.

Years later, activists turned the pink triangle upright and wore it proudly as a sign of defiance, connecting its history to Pride.

The Museum of Tolerance is dedicated to teaching the history of the Holocaust, teaching tolerance, and confronting prejudice in all its forms.

06/12/2026

On June 12, we remember Anne Frank on what would have been her 97th birthday. Anne was a Jewish teenager who hid with her family from the N***s for two years in a secret annex in Amsterdam. The diary she kept during that time has reached readers in more than 70 languages and continues to shape how the world understands the Holocaust. She was arrested in August 1944 and died of typhus at 15 years old at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early 1945.

At the Museum of Tolerance, our Anne Frank exhibit invites visitors into Anne's world to witness her story of courage, loss, and enduring hope amid one of history's darkest chapters. The exhibit features replicas, artifacts, videos, and Anne's own words through diary excerpts brought to life by a narrator.

The self-guided experience traces her journey from childhood to the Secret Annex, to deportation to Bergen-Belsen, and concludes with a reproduction of her diary and loose-leaf pages from her own writings. Afterward, our interactive Action Lab invites visitors to reflect on the dangers of intolerance and make personal pledges to foster empathy and justice in their own communities.

The Museum of Tolerance is dedicated to educating visitors on the history of the Holocaust to inspire tolerance and build a more just world.

06/10/2026

What if you could see not just what happened—but how it was made possible?

In partnership with TOLI - The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights, Rooted and Targeted is a five-day seminar for California educators that starts where history too often skips—the fullness of Jewish and Black life, culture, and community. From there, it follows the legal, social, and institutional systems that made exclusion, discrimination, and erasure not just possible, but ordinary.

Through the histories of the Holocaust, the domestic slave trade, lynching, and what those histories can teach us about the world we've inherited. You'll leave with a shared language, concrete resources, and teaching strategies you can actually use.

🗓 August 3–8, 2026 | Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
✅ Free. Travel and hotel are covered for educators 50+ miles away.
✍️ Applications are open—spots are limited!

Apply today: www.toli.us/regional-program/california/