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Echoes & Reflections is the premier source for Holocaust educational materials, professional development, and dynamic content.

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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are so proud of Echoes & Reflections educator Brooke Wheatley from Valley High School for winning the Nevada Teacher of the Year award! Brooke attended the 2025 Advanced Seminar in Poland and has coordinated many PD programs in the Las Vegas area. Congratulations Brooke! hubs.ly/Q04yf5S90
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'Deep belief' in students helps Valley High educator win Nevada Teacher of the Year award
Valley High School’s Brooke Wheatley was a teenager when her mom, an elementary school music specialist, won teacher of the year in Washington state. Now, more than 20 years later ...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In September 1935, the Nuremberg Laws, which were the legal basis for racist, anti-Jewish policy in Germany, were enacted. Explore our lesson plan, which includes first-hand testimony, to teach about the impact of this legislation and others implemented against Jewish populations. hubs.li/Q04yd7Nw0
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join our online course to explore “The Final Solution of the Jewish Question” and gain primary resources and responsible pedagogy to teach this difficult topic with confidence in the classroom. Register here: hubs.li/Q04y21mD0
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How do we turn our students into "active bystanders" who respond to the need to help others? Join our webinar on 9/22 with Dr. Ervin Staub who will give practical suggestions regarding evil, goodness, and creating active responders. Register Here: info.echoesandreflections.org/evil-goodnes...
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Evil, Goodness, and Creating Active Bystandership
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW FOR TEACHERS! Introducing EchoesConnect. Our secure AI-powered assistant, that is designed to help you find trusted resources, create engaging lessons, and support meaningful learning about the Holocaust, antisemitism, and genocide. Chat Now: hubs.ly/Q04xgnHj0
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Join our webinar on 9/14 with classroom teacher and Echoes & Reflections facilitator Tyrone Shaw who will deepen understanding of the ghettos and offer strategies to incorporate the perspectives of young people into this chapter of Holocaust history. info.echoesandreflections.org/young-lives-...
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Young Lives Stolen: Experiences of Teenagers in the Ghettos
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Echoes & Reflections is here and ready to support your teaching needs. Explore our FAQs to learn how our programming and resources can guide your planning and implementation of a comprehensive Holocaust education program. hubs.li/Q04wYwkJ0
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Join our webinar on 9/9 with Director of Holocaust Content & Pedagogy Jesse Tannetta to explore resources and effective strategies to help students examine the actions of ordinary Christians and influential leaders during the Holocaust. Register here: info.echoesandreflections.org/perpetrators...
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Perpetrators, Bystanders, Rescuers: Christian Action and Inaction During the Holocaust
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What is antisemitism? As the new school year begins, students may have questions about this term and its impacts on society. Help them develop an understanding of antisemitism with our student activity. Learn more: echoesandreflections.org/studentactiv...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Join our free 7-10 credit, facilitator-led online course and learn how to incorporate lessons on contemporary antisemitism into your classroom and contribute to building a safer and more equitable world for students. Register here: echoes.catalog.instructure.com/courses/teac...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Visual history testimonies are a powerful way to teach about the human story of the Holocaust. Through @uscshoahfoundation.bsky.social's IWitness platform Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies are aligned with our lesson plans. echoesandreflections.org/wp-content/t...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What was life like for Jewish people in Europe before the Holocaust? Explore our lesson, which offers tools to investigate who the Jews were before they were persecuted in the Holocaust and allows students to see the human story of these individuals. echoesandreflections.org/unit-1-study...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Connect with us in the new school year! Join Echoes & Reflections community and stay up to date on our new resources, and professional learning opportunities by subscribing to our newsletter. Learn more: hubs.li/Q04tmtXn0
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Join our webinar on 8/25 to explore the value of survivor testimony in Holocaust memory. Learn strategies that analyze the role of survivor testimony to inform memory of personal experiences during the Holocaust and interpret visual history testimony. info.echoesandreflections.org/the-responsi...
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The Responsibility of Witness: Motives and Memory in Holocaust Testimony
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
What was the Holocaust? In this student activity, your classroom can begin the new school year learning about this critical history through survivor testimony and exploring working definitions from 3 major institutions in the field. Learn more: echoesandreflections.org/studentactiv...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Increase historical knowledge on the Holocaust as you prepare to teach this topic in the new school year. Our 15-minute Video Toolbox films contain historic and contextual framing on a variety of topics, and are well-aligned to many of our lesson plans. echoesandreflections.org/video_toolbox/
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Join us for another special webinar on 8/10 to hear from survivor Maud Dahme. In 1942 Maud and her sister were sheltered from the Nazis by a Christian couple in the Netherlands. They survived the war and were reunited with their parents. info.echoesandreflections.org/meet-survivo...
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Meet Survivor Maud Dahme
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Excited to partner with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, for their yearlong program, “Holocaust 101: The Fundamentals of Holocaust Education", to support teachers in PA to implement the lessons of the Holocaust in their classrooms. jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-ce...
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Holocaust Center launches yearlong teacher training series
'We really see it as an opportunity for both new and returning educators'
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Join us on 8/3 for a unique webinar to hear from Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter. Pinchas was born in Lodz, Poland in 1932 and he and his family were imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto. When was liberated in 1945, Pinchas had survived six Nazi camps. info.echoesandreflections.org/meet-survivo...
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Meet Survivor Pinchas Gutter
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
So proud to have partnered with the Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center their annual educator's conference on July 21 to support Arizona teachers in Holocaust education. azjewishpost.com/2026/tjmhc-g...
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TJMHC Gives Educators the Tools to Teach the Holocaust and Other Genocides, AZ Jewish Post
The way a teacher introduces the Holocaust can stay with students long after the unit ends, shaping how they understand prejudice and hatred for years to come. That responsibility, and the skill it...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Join our webinar on 7/27 with E&R Project Director, Jennifer Goss, to explore, "What Did Americans Know About the Holocaust?" Learn how to help students analyze historical sources and engage with questions about responsibility and response. info.echoesandreflections.org/what-did-ame...
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What Did Americans Know About the Holocaust?
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Planning to teach about the Holocaust this school year? Join our free online course, Foundations of Holocaust Education, to connect with fellow educators and explore practical strategies and resources for meaningful classroom instruction. Register here: echoes.catalog.instructure.com/courses/foun...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Echoes & Reflections and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation invite U.S. secondary classroom educators to an online program on "Exploring the 'Final Solution': A Virtual Visit of Auschwitz-Birkenau". This session will provide the tools to teach about the Holocaust history. adl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In July of 1995, 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered at Srebrenica. Join our webinar on 7/22 with E&R facilitator Kim Klett to explore the genocide in Srebrenica and how you can use historical artifacts to connect these lessons to your students. info.echoesandreflections.org/memory-of-a-...
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Memory of a Genocide: Lessons and Reflections from Bosnia
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Echoes & Reflections offers FREE online courses every month on various Holocaust-related topics. Explore engaging professional learning that is asynchronous with discussions and guidance from an expert facilitator, as well as other educator participants. echoesandreflections.org/prepare/?cla...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Join our webinar on 7/14 with Award-winning author and prosecutor Adena Bernstein. Adena will explore the remarkable stories behind Nazi-looted art in her new book, "Stolen Legacies", and offer ways to connect students to this history. info.echoesandreflections.org/teaching-jus...
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Teaching Justice Through Art: Lessons from “Stolen Legacies”
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Join our webinar on 7/7 to examine how Jewish artists navigated questions of visibility, dignity, and memory in their portraits of individuals whose lives were under existential threat. Register here: info.echoesandreflections.org/facing-the-h...
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Facing the Holocaust: Portraits in Peril
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Want to teach about the Holocaust and antisemitism this coming school year? Our teaching units contain lesson plans that provide a unique experience for educators to teach about these topics effectively, all of which are accessible for free online. echoesandreflections.org/teach/?lp_re...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Looking for engaging summer PD at no cost with the opportunity to earn continuing education credits? Join one of our upcoming variety of online and in-person programs to gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to teach the Holocaust in the new school year. Learn more: hubs.li/Q04mG53r0
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Join our free online course to examine the creation of the Terezin ghetto, the role of resistance, and how the prisoner performances of Verdi's Requiem inspired individuals then and now. Completers earn a 5-hour certificate. Register here: echoes.catalog.instructure.com/courses/defi...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Thinking about teaching the Holocaust in the new school year? Explore our 15 digital student-directed classroom activities designed to increase knowledge about core topics of Holocaust history, antisemitism, and related issues. Learn more: hubs.li/Q04m8FfF0
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Join our online course to gain an understanding of how antisemitic tropes and hate speech related to the Holocaust are weaponized. Learn how to challenge students to think critically and empower them to recognize and reject antisemitic hate speech. echoes.catalog.instructure.com/courses/teac...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Join our webinar on 6/22 with Jesse Tannetta, Director of Holocaust Content and Pedagogy, to explore the Weimar Republic's fragile democracy and the events that allowed Nazism to take hold in Germany. info.echoesandreflections.org/who-let-it-h...
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Who Let It Happen? Ordinary Germans and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
To support educators in planning and instruction, we've added Alignment Guides to our Holocaust education legislation map, that identifies where Echoes & Reflections content and resources align with existing state-level standards. Learn more: hubs.li/Q04l3bMJ0
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Join our webinar on 6/18 to explore how antisemitism today is affecting students. ADL experts will share findings from their latest Audit of Antisemitic Incidents and educators will gain classroom-ready resources that equip them to foster positive change. adl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
What were the Nuremberg trials? How accurately is the history of the Nuremberg trials portrayed in the 2025 Hollywood movie Nuremberg? Join our webinar on 6/15 to hear international expert, writer, and professor John Q. Barrett explore these questions. info.echoesandreflections.org/the-nurember...
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The Nuremberg Trials and Hollywood's Nuremberg Movie
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Join our webinar on 6/10 with Megan Helberg from the Anne Frank Center, for a fascinating exploration of the Frank family's journey before, during, and after the Holocaust and their contemporary connections to the classroom. Register here: info.echoesandreflections.org/beyond-the-d...
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Beyond the Diary: Expanding the Story of Anne Frank
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Pride Month is an important moment to recognize the LGBTQIA+ people persecuted under the Nazis. View testimony from USC Shoah Foundation featuring stories of survival, resistance, rescue, and heartbreaking loss to honor this important month. sfi.usc.edu/pride @uscshoahfoundation.bsky.social
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Honoring LGBTQIA+ Pride Month through Testimony
In commemoration of Pride Month, the Institute recognizes the LGBTQIA+ people persecuted under the Nazis from as early as 1933 to the end of the war in 1945, some of whose stories are in the Institute...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
To commemorate Pride Month, join our webinar on 6/2 with Eric Marcus, founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast. Eric will introduce its current 12-episode series on the experiences of LGBTQ people during the Holocaust and WWII. info.echoesandreflections.org/making-gay-h...
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Making Gay History: The Nazi Era
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Echoes & Reflections offers a variety of content to support Spanish-speaking learners in the classroom. A collection of resources are translated into Spanish and can be accessed in each of our 12 teaching units. Explore today: hubs.li/Q04hv7YW0
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, join our webinar on 5/26 with The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) to learn about AAPB’s resources related to Jewish American history and culture, how to use the AAPB in teaching and research, and more. Register here: hubs.li/Q04gPf-20
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Researching Jewish American Heritage through the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Join our online course in June to gain an overview of Echoes & Reflections resources and pedagogy to teach the Holocaust responsibly, and effectively introduce this complex topic into your classroom. Register here: echoes.catalog.instructure.com/courses/foun...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Join our webinar on 5/18 with Yael Eaglstein, a Yad Vashem educator, who will introduce teachers to The "Auschwitz Album," the only photos that portray the story of the transports that arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer of 1944. info.echoesandreflections.org/the-auschwit...
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The Auschwitz Album: Visual Evidence of the Mass Murder Program
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Deepen your knowledge of Holocaust education. Our library of Articles & Essays can support further study and instruction on this vital topic as you continue your journey as a Holocaust educator. hubs.li/Q04fqkl90
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Are you a Holocaust educator who teaches middle school? We now offer select handouts throughout our lesson plans to support middle school reading levels. Handouts with “MS” designation in our Units are intended for these types of learners. Learn more: echoesandreflections.org/teach/?lp_re...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Join our webinar on 5/12 with @uscshoahfoundation.bsky.social's Learning and Development Specialist, Raquel Diaz Serralta, who will focus on teaching the Holocaust to upper-primary educators while maintaining emotional safety. info.echoesandreflections.org/nurturing-un...
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Nurturing Understanding: Holocaust Education in the Primary Classroom
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Thank you to our incredible educator community for your dedication to Holocaust education. We are grateful for your ongoing commitment to bettering the lives of students and are honored to support you in bringing the important lessons of history into your classrooms.
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Join our webinar on 5/4 with Yoni Berrous, Head of Educational Resource Development at the National Library of Israel, who will offer practical guidance for educators on preserving historical accuracy and meaning in Holocaust education. Register here: hubs.li/Q04dppmX0
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Holocaust Teaching in the Shadow of Distortion and Trivialization
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We record all of our live webinars, which can be readily accessed on our website. If you are looking for 1-hour CEUs, explore and refresh your knowledge on Holocaust history and effective instructional practice with our library of webinar recordings: echoesandreflections.org/webinar-reco...
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Echoes & Reflections @echoesreflections.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Sadly, antisemitism in the U.S. is at an all time high. Our student activity on contemporary antisemitism can guide youth on how to communicate about its presence and the harm it causes. Learn how to bring these important lessons into your classroom: hubs.li/Q04d2x7q0
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