Dora Love, who died in October 2011, was a survivor of Stutthof concentration camp. Throughout her later life she was committed to educating younger generations about the Holocaust. Dora was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Essex in 2009.

The Dora Love Prize

Dora Love, a Holocaust survivor, spent much of her life raising awareness that the attitudes which made the Holocaust possible – intolerance, discrimination and outright hatred of those who are regarded as ‘different’ for whatever reason – are still alive all around us, so in this sense, the Holocaust is not a singular or isolated event.

Dora Love died on 26 October 2011, but the Dora Love Prize will continue her work. It will be awarded each year for the best Holocaust awareness project by an individual pupil or group of pupils of a school in Essex or Suffolk – primary, secondary or sixth-form college.

The Prize will go to the project which expresses best that which was most important to Dora Love: speaking up against hatred wherever it occurs, never forgetting the ultimate consequence of seemingly small acts of discrimination and developing a sense of personal responsibility.

The first Dora Love Prize will be awarded in January 2013 and be presented during the University of Essex Holocaust Memorial Week: the week leading up to or including 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet troops in 1945.

Find out more about Dora Love's life and work

Further Information and How to Apply

Schools, colleges and pupils who would like further details about how to participate should email Professor Rainer Schulze, Director of the Human Rights Centre and co-ordinator of Holocaust Memorial Week at the University of Essex:

rainer@essex.ac.uk