Echoes and Reflections

The award-winning curriculum developed by the Anti-Defamation League, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, and Yad Vashem, includes everything educators need to teach the complex issues of the Holocaust to today’s students.

Why Echoes and Reflections?

Educators and students share their experiences with Echoes and Reflections.

Echoes Curriculum, opened to show lesson

Modular Curriculum Design allows educators to choose age-appropriate materials specific to their content areas while meeting national and state standards.

Student watching Holocaust Survivor testimony in a classroom

Visual History Testimony of survivors, rescuers, liberators, and other witnesses individualizes the history of the Holocaust and challenges students to examine their own personal narratives.

Children dressed for Purim in Polish ghetto, circa 1930's

Primary Source Materials, including photographs, art work, diary entries, letters, poems, and government documents, represent a variety of perspectives and help students build an authentic and complete portrait of the past.

Comprehensive Web Site provides additional resources to enhance both teachers’ and students’ experience with Echoes and Reflections.

The curriculum is clearly designed by a teacher for teachers. The potential value is obvious at a glance, and further reading shows the great depths of topics that can be explored. The workshop was invaluable in sparking a passion for the subject, and motivating me to use this and share it as soon as I can.

Upper Fairfield County, Connecticut religion teacher