SCHOOLS are being encouraged to take part in a special project at Essex University to remember the Holocaust and combat intolerance and discrimination.
Earlier this year the university launched the Dora Love Prize, in memory of Dora Love, a Holocaust survivor who lived in Colchester from the late 1960s.
She spent much of her life after her liberation raising awareness about the attitudes which made the Holocaust possible - intolerance and discrimination.
Students are being asked to develop projects which can cover history, religious studies, performance, art or politics which they will then present at a special prize evening during the university’s Holocaust Memorial Week in January next year.
The prize goes to the project which expresses best what was most important to Dora: 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.
Participation is open to all key stage two and three students from Essex and Suffolk.
To find out more email: hjmort@essex.ac.uk
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