Tolerance Education Center

Thank you Dennis and Luis from for helping us lift our statue after the vandalism several weeks ago. We appreciate you for volunteering your time during this season and for living out the mission of meeting intolerance with love.

Thank you to Horizon High and our wonderful speakers for the visit and wonderful conversation about perseverance, sacrifice, and compassion.

We are scheduling additional speakers and events this season. Please sign up for the email newsletter or visit Brie website to stay up to date.

Save the date! December 2nd we will be having an educators’ training at TEC. If you are interested in learning how to introduce the Holocaust at an age appropriate level to your students we will be holding a special training with Avenues for Change. Space is limited. A link for registration will be in the bio.

Are you a teacher looking for field trip opportunities for you students? We are now booking Fall field trips for students to the Tolerance Education Center.
Please reach out through [email protected] for more info.

We look forward to seeing you all again in person. Here's a photo from our event with author Michele Gold.

Thank you to everyone who has attended our recent events. We are looking forward to continuing events in the fall!

Thank you to Michele Gold for her curation of this amazing exhibit. Michele will be presenting live this month and sharing the story of her mother, pictured left. Be on the lookout for registration.

Thank you Linda for your donation of this beautiful graphic novel set which chronicles the civil rights movement.

This is the final week to view this exhibit. We will be open on 3.26.23 from 12pm-5pm.

Please join us.
Images of the toys, games, artwork, diaries and poems displayed in the panel images highlight some of the personal stories of the children, and provide a glimpse into their lives during the Holocaust.

Join us for a virtual meeting with a second-generation Holocaust speaker.
Wednesday February 22nd, join us as we hear from speaker and writer Michelle Gold.

Register here: https://forms.gle/SqkH8pJbf8bwNqqR7

We've missed you! We are reopening TEC and would love to see you there.
Please RSVP to let us know how much food to bring!

https://forms.gle/UpCVcCfnDsTmjhU27

Join us tonight at 6pm!

Last minute registration here:
https://forms.gle/VJX4icYd22HPQKnm7

Looking forward to many events in 2023! Kicking off the year with a
private pre-Screening for J'Accuse! A cry from the death pits of Lithuania.

Register Here
https://www.eventcreate.com/e/j-accuse-a-cry-from-the-de

There is still time to join us as we learn about "How to Teach the Holocaust" (Virtual Talk)

Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 12:00pm PST / 3:00pm EST

Hilary Levine of Avenues for Change: Holocaust and Genocide Education discusses the challenges of teaching in the current climate, how a rise in antisemitism affects the classroom, and how the recent documentary the US + and the Holocaust can be a teaching tool.

Register Here! https://forms.gle/dMzu3WEp3QkCpDyz9

Virtual Screening of Beyle: The Artist and her Legacy Virtual screening of BEYLE: The Artist and Her Legacy with Q&A after.

Prior to the pandemic, middle and high school students visited the Tolerance Education Center to see an exhibit, and meet with a Holocaust survivor for a presentation and Q & A. The Tolerance Education Center is planning to reopen the facility in the fall. We would like to hear from the school community, educators, and administrators.

The USHMM invites you to watch this week's Facebook Live episode which will be broadcast on the 5th anniversary of the violent Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, VA - Thursday, August 11 at 9:30am ET.

The Foot Soldiers of White Supremacy

Five years ago, white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of Confederate statues.Their flaming torches, racist and anti-Jewish slogans, and threats of violence stunned many Americans. A day later, one counter-protester was killed and others were injured. Since then, self-proclaimed neo-N**is have drawn new recruits with the viral spread of conspiracy theories that stoke division and myths of white power and replacement. Watch live on Facebook to learn about the history of beliefs that once seemed fringe and today fuel hatred and violence.

Speakers

Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

David E. Mills, Partner, Cooley LLP, represented plaintiffs who were victims of a racially motivated conspiracy to commit intimidation and violence during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia

Who was Earl Greif?

Earl Greif, founder of the Tolerance Education Center, was born in Poland in 1925. When the N**is invaded in 1939, they moved Greif's family from their home to the Rudki concentration camp. One morning, when the Gestapo began yanking people from their beds, Greif, 16, and his 10-year-old brother Yehuda managed to find hiding inside a nearby brick oven. A day later, they emerged to find their mother and sister murdered, along with at least two dozen other family members.

How Earl and his Brother Survived

The boys escaped to a nearby forest, along with their father who also managed to elude the enemy. There they spent six months foraging for food and hiding from the N**i armies. After their father died in the forest and winter approached, Greif and his brother decided to enter a village under assumed names. They spent two years moving from town to town before finding sanctuary in a Russian army hospital.
It was only in 1994, after Earl immigrated to the U.S., married, raised a family, became a successful entrepreneur, and retired that he spoke about his experience.

Making Holocaust Education a Mission

Upon hearing Holocaust deniers on television for the first time, he could no longer be silent. Greif began telling his story in local schools and in other settings and went on to establish the Tolerance Education Center and, with fellow Holocaust Survivor Joe Brandt, the Holocaust Memorial Park in the Coachella Valley. Earl’s story can be found on line on our website, and https://toleranceeducationcenter.org/stories and in an autobiography called Angels in the Forest.

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