The Dora Love Prize is a collaborative initiative between universities and schools that encourages young people to explore themes of diversity, equality, and inclusion. Rooted in the history of the Holocaust, it highlights how lessons from the past can help us understand and challenge forms of discrimination in the present.

What is the initiative about?
The project aims to:

• Learn from the past: Using historical insight to shape a fairer future.

• Encourage active citizenship: Supporting students to become more aware, responsible, and engaged members of society.

• Inspire action: Empowering young people to recognise their ability to make a positive impact.

Why is it relevant today?
The Dora Love Prize invites reflection on issues such as intolerance, prejudice, and human rights, encouraging students to connect historical events with contemporary challenges both locally and globally.

By examining these themes, participants and attendees can gain a deeper understanding of how communities can respond to discrimination and promote meaningful social change.

The Dora Love Prize, named after Holocaust survivor and educator Dora Rabinowitz Love, is an annual school prize informed by the Holocaust. It gives secondary school students the opportunity to learn about the Holocaust in a way that makes it relevant for them and inspires citizenship and democratic activism to put an end to identity-based prejudice, discrimination, marginalisation and violence in our communities today.

Dora Love passed away on 26 October 2011, and the Dora Love Prize continues her work in raising awareness to the ongoing dangers of intolerance, discrimination and hatred of people because of who they are. The attitudes that made the Holocaust possible still persist today, and it is important to stand up and speak up out for an inclusive society.