Honorary Graduates
Profile: Dora Love
Dora
Love is a Holocaust survivor, born in Lithuania and now settled in
Colchester who educates younger generations about the Holocaust. She was
deported to the Stutthoff concentration camp near Danzig (Gdansk) with her
mother, sister and one brother. All, except Dora, perished.
Although Stutthof was the only camp never liberated, Dora was one of a
group that reached Neustadt/Holstein, on barges, on 3 May 1945. There she
worked on translations for war crime trials for the British Army, UNRRA
(United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) and the American
Joint Distribution Committee.
After her marriage to Frank Love, a member of the British Army, she was
reunited with her father in 1946. Her husband’s work took her to South
Africa, where her two children were born. Her daughter became a freedom
fighter in the South African Underground movement and later a member of the
parliament led by Nelson Mandela. Dora’s son is Professor of Neuropathology
in Bristol.
You can watch a video of Dora Love's oration by accessing one of the
following links:
mms://sernt3.essex.ac.uk/public/dora_love_oration.wmv
http://sernt3.essex.ac.uk/public/dora_love_oration.wmv