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Dora Love, pictured above at left with Eva Spangenthal in April 2011, passed away last week in Colchester, UK, after a brief illness. Dora was a Holocaust survivor and an advocate of tolerance. Where-ever she went, she shared her experiences and her remarkable story, which included the recovery and resettlement of children who had survived through World War II in hiding. She visited Charleston in late April 2011 and spoke at the Charleston JCC about the rescue of the Children at Blankenese, in Hamburg, Germany, which she considered her greatest achievement.
While in Charleston, Dora also spoke at the Holocaust Memorial March, and met with students at Addlestone Hebrew Academy and Porter Gaud Middle and High Schools.
My family and I were privileged to be friends of Dora and her husband Frank and family in Johannesburg as far back as the '50s, and following their move back to England in the late '70s.
Dora is survived by a son and daughter and their respective families, and will be remembered by many thousands more, whose lives she touched with her courageous spirit and her ever-moving testimony.
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