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The new online application that enables educators and students to search, watch, and learn from more than 1,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses.
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The Institute is developing a cohort of educators dedicated to exploring the educational use of video testimony across multiple disciplines.
Teacher Resources
Featured Resource
Lesly Culp
Vista Murrieta High School
Master Teacher Lesly Culp developed the lesson Coming to America after the War as part of a course on the theme The American Dream through Race, Class, and Gender. The lesson features testimony of Holocaust survivors as they describe their experiences of coming to America.
Go to Lesly Culp’s lessonEchoes and Reflections Teacher Training
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.
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Learn more about Echoes and Reflections and find a teacher training session near you.International Resources
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