The Dreyfus Affair

The Dreyfus Affair
Involved corruption, perjury, and injustice on a massive scale. The lessons of that moment in history are just as meaningful today as they were at the turn of the 20th Century. Use this extensive and well–researched educational package to educate your classroom, your school, your community against hatred and prejudice.

Package Includes

16 Posters – based on original documents (coated, 35" x 23")
43–page acclaimed, illustrated teaching guide, with chronology and bibliography. It explains the documents, interprets the imagery, and suggests study methods

Package cost is $175 plus ship / handling.

More about the Dreyfus Affair

The Dreyfus Affair is the story of abuse of power in an atmosphere of scandal and lies. Yet, ultimately, it is a story of moral courage.

Captain Alfred Dreyfus was a Jewish Army officer falsely accused of treason. Evidence was forged. Trials were rigged. Dreyfus was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison on Devil’s Island.

That could have been the end of the episode, except for the involvement of people willing to fight for what was right, led by the novelist Emile Zola.

Zola risked his reputation, his career and his life to declare Dreyfus' innocence in his open letter "J’accuse." He exposed the real traitors and conspirators, although they were men of immense power. For his efforts, he was forced to leave France.

Zola's courage places him among those contemporary heroes such as Gandhi, Schindler, Sharansky, and Martin Luther King – people who took a stand, often at great personal risk, simply because it was the right thing to do. It serves as an important reminder that some principles are too important to compromise.