Echoes & Reflections is the premier source for Holocaust educational materials and dynamic content, empowering teachers and students with the insight needed to question the past and foresight to impact the future. We partner with educators to support them, foster confidence, and amplify their skills and resources to teach about the Holocaust in a comprehensive and meaningful way. For more information, visit echoesandreflections.org or contact [email protected].

Combining the expertise of three leaders in education–ADL, USC Shoah Foundation, and Yad Vashem–the program, designed for middle and high school educators and their students, offers:

Best-in-class professional development
A comprehensive Teacher’s Resource Guide and companion website
Extensive primary and secondary source materials
Visual testimonies from survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust
Modular, interdisciplinary lessons that use a mix of instructional strategies and technologies
Expansive array of print and digital resources

In Florida, nearly 2000 public and private school teachers have completed the Echoes and Reflections Teacher Training since 2005 and have incorporated Echoes and Reflections lessons in their classrooms, reaching over 250,000 students.

Florida currently ranks as the top state in providing ADL’s “Echoes and Reflections” workshops, the most comprehensive multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust available up to date, to more teachers than in any other state nationwide.

This is especially important given that Holocaust education is mandated in Florida:

FS 1003.42 Required Holocaust Education Mandate Public School Instruction

The history of the Holocaust (1933-1945), the systematic, planned annihilation of European Jews and other groups by Nazi Germany, a watershed event in the history of humanity, to be taught in a manner that leads to an investigation of human behavior, an understanding of the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping, and an examination of what it means to be a responsible and respectful person, for the purposes of encouraging tolerance of diversity in a pluralistic society and for nurturing and protecting democratic values and institutions.

Approved Florida Training Centers:

Education directors and staff at the following Holocaust museums and education and resource centers have taken part in an Echoes and Reflections train-the-trainer program, preparing them to bring Echoes and Reflections professional development programs to their local communities.

The ADL Florida Region is a Member of the Florida Holocaust Education Task Force.

For more information, please contact the ADL Florida office at: (561) 988-2900 or contact us.

Echoes and Reflections was created by the Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation and Yad Vashem.