Margaret (Maggie) Kocevar 1968-1996

The Tolerance Resource Center would not exist without the vision and efforts of Notre Dame College adjunct faculty member and alumna Margaret (Maggie) Kocevar ’90. A Holocaust scholar, Maggie developed an interest in the Holocaust while in high school and had amassed an extensive collection of books on the topic. It was her dream that a center for research, outreach and education on the Holocaust, anti-bias issues and diversity be established at Notre Dame College and she and her mentor, Sister Mary Louise Trivison begun exploring the possibility of housing the center in the Clara Fritzsche Library.

At the time of her untimely death, Maggie was videotaping and interviewing Holocaust survivors who lived in the Cleveland area as the lead interviewer for the Steven Spielberg video archives project funded by the Shoah Visual History Foundation. She interviewed 33 survivors, more than any other interviewer involved in the project. These one-of-a-kind video documents are the highlight of the collection.

In her honor, the Kocevar family generously contributed much of Maggie’s personal collection of Holocaust materials to the Tolerance Resource Center. This material served as the cornerstone for the Center’s growing collection of over 1,900 volumes.

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