Echoes and Reflections in the News

• Vogel's Visit to Yield New Perspectives on Holocaust Education (La Salle University Collegian Newspaper)
  Robert Vogel, participant on the 2010 Echoes and Reflections Professors' Study Tour to Yad Vashem, shares his experiences with fellow faculty and students at La Salle University.
• The Lessons of History (Connecticut Jewish Ledger)
  Fairfield, Connecticut resident and Holocaust survivor, Martin Schiller, shares his experiences during the Holocaust with middle and high school teachers at an Echoes and Reflections workshop.
• Workshop Helps Teachers with Holocaust Lessons (The Connecticut Post)
  Twenty-six Connecticut teachers and education majors were trained to use Echoes and Reflections at a workshop hosted by The Center for Christian—Jewish Understanding at Sacred Heart University. Educators learned how to implement the curriculum and listened to a Fairfield, Connecticut, survivor speak about his experiences during the war.
• Speakers Advocate Holocaust Program (Evansville Courier & Press)
  Advocates for Holocaust education in Indiana schools want to make sure the curriculum doesn’t fade away. Project Director, Deborah Batiste and Yad Vashem professor, Alan Rosen conducted a workshop in Evansville for educators in area schools.
• Multimedia Program Offers Classroom Options for Teaching the Holocaust (Catholic Courier)
  A correspondent from The Catholic Courier speaks to Deborah Batiste, Project Director for Echoes and Reflections. The author describes the curriculum as a comprehensive tool that helps educators approach and explore the subject of Holocaust education in their classrooms.
• Holocaust Survivor Speaks at Alcoa High School in Tennessee
  At an Echoes and Reflections program in Tennessee sponsored by the Claims Conference, A Holocaust survivor and an Israeli scholar urged students not to view the era’s events—both of immense horrors and compassion—with a detached objectivity, but to allow the events to speak to them about their own individual humanity.
• Echoes And Reflections Holocaust Curriculum Receives Multicultural Education Award (ADL)
  The Anti-Defamation League announced that Echoes and Reflections—A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust received an award from the National Association for Multicultural Education.
• Holocaust Organization Commends Award Winning Curriculum (GSI)
  Generations of the Shoah International, a global network of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, congratulate Echoes and Reflections for receiving the NAME award.
• Omaha Teacher Featured by ADL (Institute for Holocaust Education)
  In their annual report, ADL shared the story of a Nebraska teacher who has used Echoes and Reflections to spur enormous interest in studying the Holocaust amongst her students.
• High School Students Visit Holocaust Museum (Westport Minuteman)
  A Connecticut teacher complemented his Echoes and Reflections Holocaust lessons by bringing his students to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
• Echoes and Reflections Reaches Audiences by Recalling the Individual (Jewish Federation of Omaha)
  Hundreds of Nebraska educators have been trained using Echoes and Reflections, and they have since brought the stories of individual Holocaust survivors to their classrooms.