Tour For Tolerance Promo

Bill Tingling, CEO of School News Nationwide is a longtime Holocaust education advocate, who is behind an initiative called the Tour for Tolerance. The idea is to transform a bus into a high-tech interactive classroom, to bring lessons of fighting hate right to students doors.

The bus would be outfitted with video screens that show holograms of Holocaust survivors, members of the civil rights movement and more.

Tingling is working with the USC Shoah Foundation, which created the technology used in the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s “Dimensions in Testimony” exhibit. The hope is that one bus could reach 50,000 students per year by traveling to schools all across the five boroughs.

In addition to offering interactive video programming, the goal is to also showcase living history by have someone who lived through the civil rights movement, or a Holocaust survivor on board to tell their story in person.Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann is among those participating in the project.