Welcome
The Tolerance Education Program (TEP) aims to change the world by encouraging middle and senior high school students–world leaders of tomorrow–to make “tolerance” a cornerstone value. The Program is not just useful. It’s necessary. With the ever-rising number of hate crimes worldwide, TEP teaches that the only realistic weapons to fight bigotry and hatred are empathy and individual responsibility as a citizen of the world.
The Tolerance Education Program is about preserving the experiences of real men, women, and children–real victims. We want to reach both the hearts and minds of students. Through TEP, they can see and feel the consequences of hatred and bullying. They walk in the shoes of the victim and know their pain.
Who is Esther Raab?
On October 14, 1943, Esther Tenner and the other six-hundred inmates of Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. She dodged bullets and ran past exploding mines until she reached the edge of the forest surrounding Sobibor. For the next year, she was forced to remain in hiding because anti-Semitic Polish partisans roamed the forest and most of the local peasants weren’t sympathetic to the plight of the escapees. By the time the Red Army reached eastern Poland, only forty-eight Sobibor escapees, including Esther had survived the war.
Clips of Dear Esther, a play. Scenes included are from Act 1, Scene one and two.
Clips from a documentary about the Sobibor uprising.