b'IMPACT: KNOWING THE STORYthe less far away and foreign this history feels, and the more open and committed we will be to building a kinder, gentler world, Dr. Gringlas added.In addition to financial support, Dr. Gringlas and her husband Joel Greenberg have sponsored the creation of an additional classroom unit in Echoes & Reflections to address an existing gap in Holocaust education, aiming to teach about current antisemitism rather than discussing the subject in past tense, as though it stopped in 1945. The Gringlas Unit on Contemporary Antisemitism demonstrates that antisemitism is an ongoing threat that young people need to learn about and be inspired to counter.Named in honor of members of the Gringlas Family who were Holocaust victims and survivorsMarcys parents Joseph and Reli and her uncle Sol were Holocaust survivors who have given testimony to the Visual History Archivethe online three-lesson unit is designed Spotlight:to help teachers deliver accurate and sensitive instruction Dr. Marcy Gringlas around the complexities of contemporary antisemitism.In addition to Echoes & Reflections, Dr. Gringlas Holocaust education remains vitalas a means ofhas supported the Institutes Countering Antisemitism understanding the horrors of the past, and for addressingThrough Testimony program and helped drive the contemporary antisemitism and combating the forcesInstitutes efforts to provide emergency services for that lead to genocide. Echoes & Reflections stands assurvivors living in poverty. These efforts speak to the one of the premiere sources for Holocaust educationpower of engaging those who lived through the past to and professional development in the United States.educate current generations for the future.Formed by a partnership among USC Shoah Foundation,For Dr. Gringlas, the message from survivors is both Anti-Defamation League and Yad Vashem, Echoes &simple and potent: Pay attention to what happened to us. Reflections has reached more than 85,000 educators sinceLearn from what happened to us.its founding in 2005.According to Dr. Marcy Gringlas, longtime USC Shoah Foundation donor and Board of Councilors member whose Seed the Dream Foundation supports Echoes & Reflections, this educational effort is vital to create in students a range of positive outcomes, especially empathy: Exposure and education are key to opening peoples hearts. By providing educators with resources to help students question the past, Echoes & Reflections also aims to impact the future. We are once again experiencing a very divided world. The more we know about the other, 2020 ANNUAL REPORT15'