One Person can make a difference

Courage to Care is a travelling Exhibition and Educational Program about respect and acceptance of all peoples.

The Program uses the stories of people who, at great risk to themselves, their families and their communities, saved Jews during the Holocaust.
It is directed primarily to senior secondary students (Years 9 - 12)

It comprises four sections.

  1. A brief introductory DVD
    The introductory DVD gives historical background to the Holocaust as an extreme example of the consequences of intolerance and prejudice.

  2. A survivors testimony
    A Holocaust survivor tells their personal story, how they survived the war and the way in which their rescuers showed the courage to care.

  3. The Exhibition
    The exhibition consists of panels and "humanoids" telling the story of the rescuers and the people they saved.

  4. Discussion
    In small groups trained facilitators encourage the students to think of examples of prejudice and discrimination in their own lives and challenge them to consider their responses to this.

The outcome of the workshop is to encourage students to stand up in the face of injustice through their understanding of the consequences of prejudice and their recognition that each person can make a difference.



“Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. 
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. 
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. 
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. 
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. 
To be in the window and watch people being sent to concentration camps or being attacked in the street and to do nothing, that’s being dead.”

(Elie Wiesel, US News and World Report, October 27, 1986)

 

For more information on the Exhibition and Educational Program see the Courage to Care brochure

Courage to Care is also developing the ‘Links to Living History Project’ that, among other things, will enable schools to interact with a Holocaust survivor via a live video computer link.

For a History of Courage to Care Victoria - Click here