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BBC News
24-06-2025
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Suffolk and Essex schools showcase Dora Love anti-hate projects
High school pupils have been presenting creative projects inspired by Holocaust education and aimed at tackling prejudice and Dora Love Prize is named after a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Lithuania who settled in Colchester, and worked to promote tolerance and high schools from Suffolk and four from Essex presented their work at the University of Essex on 23 June, with videos sent from a school in Dartford in Kent, and one from Valley Academy in Suffolk, were the 2025 winners, using QR codes on posters to share interviews with people who had faced discrimination. It is the 14th time the prize has run, with winners receiving a £300 cheque to help with anti-discrimination High in Ipswich and the Gilbert School in Colchester were the two runners up, receiving £100 13, from Alde Valley, in Leiston, said: "For our presentation, Not a Statistic, we interviewed members of ISCRE [Ipswich and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality] and members of our school, about what diversity means to them, how it feels to be discriminated 15, also from Alde Valley, said: "We've all learned a lot. It's always good to win something as it is encouragement. We'll go back to school and encourage kids to do it next year." St Helena school in Colchester won the prize in year its children created a 25-minute film called The Importance of Knowing, which was screened earlier in the month at the city's Firstsite art 13, said: "We wanted to share with people what discrimination is and how it affects different people of all ages, all races, all sexualities and how they live it every day." Isla, 14, said: "We talked to as many different groups and people with different backgrounds as we could, and we asked them how they deal with discrimination, why they think that safe spaces are important."Donovan, 14, added: "With the internet, anyone can be discriminated against anywhere, anytime. "[Social media] can spread positivity and information and learning, but also it just needs to be moderated more because of all the hate going around, especially at the moment." Rainer Schulze is an emeritus professor at the Department of History and Human Rights Centre and the University of university originally hosted the prize, but this year it became a stand-alone Schulze met Dora Love in the early 2000s in Colchester."We had an immediate connection. She was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who always put the emphasis on the fact that it was not only Jews that were persecuted, but a whole range of other groups as well because of who they were," he told BBC Essex."This included the Roma and Sinti, often known as Gypsies, gay men, Jehovah's Witnesses, disabled people, and many more. "I find if you don't point out that the overall aim of Nazi ideology was to create a homogenous society where everyone was alike - a frightening thought - then you miss a trick in Holocaust education."If you talk about homogenizing society, then you get the young people because they understand they've been, or some of them have been, undergoing the same pressure of fitting in, of being discriminated of who they are." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
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Pupils design candleholder for Holocaust survivor
Students have designed a candleholder in memory of a Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to education. Frank Bright, who was spared the gas chambers in the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz as a teenager, worked regularly with Northgate High School in Ipswich until his death in 2023. The candleholder will be part of a national exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of World War Two. Macey, 14, who was one of the pupils involved in the project, said: "It just shows you how much history [Frank] held, even as a single individual person." Northgate High School is regular participant of the annual Dora Love Prize, a holocaust education programme. As part of the programme students develop a creative project that links to what they have learnt about the holocaust, which they present at a showcase event in June. The title for this year's prize was: "Time to stand up against a renewed wave of hate and exclusion." Year 9 pupils from the school designed a candleholder that commemorated the story of Mr Bright and his classmates, which has been chosen by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust as part of its 80 Candles tour. Mr Bright used his 1942 class photo as a teaching tool, researching what happened to each of the children pictured alongside him. In one of the many educational videos he participated in, Mr Bright explained his motivation to teach children about the holocaust. "Well since I had the means and the energy to do, I felt I ought to bring them back into memory. "Otherwise, like all the rest, they disappeared in oblivion," he said. Speaking at the event at Northgate High School to unveil the candleholder, Liz Harsant, the chair of Suffolk County Council, said: "I was born during the war and I remember very well Auschwitz and the horrible things that we had to witness. "I married into a Jewish family, so I am much aware of the hatred that goes on, discrimination is still here and we don't seem to be able to get rid of it. "I think more people should come to see this exhibition and to learn from how the students' articulated it." Adam Nickels, the head of outreach at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, said: "We love the fact that the holocaust survivor who inspired their candleholder, Frank Bright, used to visit the school and whom the pupils wished to commemorate for his contribution to their understanding of the holocaust. "The carvings in the oak are beautifully created with messages of hope and commitment while commemorating Frank, his family and school friends." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Holocaust prize founder warns of rising hatred Communities remember millions killed in Holocaust Holocaust and Auschwitz survivor dies aged 94 The Dora Love Prize Northgate High School Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
BBC News
08-05-2025
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Ipswich students design candleholder for late holocaust survivor
Students have designed a candleholder in memory of a Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to Bright, who was spared the gas chambers in the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz as a teenager, worked regularly with Northgate High School in Ipswich until his death in candleholder will be part of a national exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of World War 14, who was one of the pupils involved in the project, said: "It just shows you how much history [Frank] held, even as a single individual person." Northgate High School is regular participant of the annual Dora Love Prize, a holocaust education part of the programme students develop a creative project that links to what they have learnt about the holocaust, which they present at a showcase event in title for this year's prize was: "Time to stand up against a renewed wave of hate and exclusion."Year 9 pupils from the school designed a candleholder that commemorated the story of Mr Bright and his classmates, which has been chosen by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust as part of its 80 Candles tour. Mr Bright used his 1942 class photo as a teaching tool, researching what happened to each of the children pictured alongside one of the many educational videos he participated in, Mr Bright explained his motivation to teach children about the holocaust. "Well since I had the means and the energy to do, I felt I ought to bring them back into memory. "Otherwise, like all the rest, they disappeared in oblivion," he said. Speaking at the event at Northgate High School to unveil the candleholder, Liz Harsant, the chair of Suffolk County Council, said: "I was born during the war and I remember very well Auschwitz and the horrible things that we had to witness. "I married into a Jewish family, so I am much aware of the hatred that goes on, discrimination is still here and we don't seem to be able to get rid of it. "I think more people should come to see this exhibition and to learn from how the students' articulated it."Adam Nickels, the head of outreach at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, said: "We love the fact that the holocaust survivor who inspired their candleholder, Frank Bright, used to visit the school and whom the pupils wished to commemorate for his contribution to their understanding of the holocaust. "The carvings in the oak are beautifully created with messages of hope and commitment while commemorating Frank, his family and school friends." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
30-01-2025
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Holocaust education prize founder warns of rising hatred
The founder of an anti-discrimination programme for schools says he fears hatred and prejudice are on the Rainer Schulze runs the Dora Love Prize, named after a Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked to promote tolerance and 2025 prize has seven schools from Suffolk taking part, along with seven in Essex, one in Kent, five in Dorset and one in Schulze said: "Seeing those young people today gave me the confidence that maybe not all is lost, that they are equally passionate about preserving freedoms for everyone." A launch event was held at the University of Suffolk in Ipswich following Monday's Holocaust Remembrance Day, and similar events have taken place in Colchester and Dora Love Prize is awarded to students who develop projects which "link what they have learnt about the Holocaust with the world they live in today".About 100 youngsters from Suffolk took part with workshops, presentations and a panel discussion covering the Holocaust, other genocides and current political challenges in Britain and Schulze, who has been running the prize for 13 years, said he was genuinely worried about events in the US."The vilification and demonisation of certain groups - I'm afraid it will actually come to Europe as well and probably come to Britain first, " he said. Following the launch events, students develop their own creative projects based on the title "Time to stand up against a renewed wave of hate and exclusion".They then present their work at a showcase event in Isla and Dayah are 14-year-olds from Debenham High School who took part in a workshop looking at Holocaust perpetrators which was called Ordinary People - Extraordinary said: "It was normalised, that people can commit genocide without being questioned. Isla added: "People in the photographs aren't hiding their faces; it wasn't something they were ashamed of - they were proud of said : "I think it's very important to learn about the mistakes that we made in the past."Looking back in history, for example at these photos, we should learn from what happened back then and we should not be afraid to talk about it." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
