"Echoes and Reflections" Workshop for Teachers

On October 16 Hatikvah and the Connecticut office of the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) offered a full day workshop for teachers based on ADL's "Echoes and Reflections" curriculum and Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center's permanent exhibit, "A Reason to Remember" and “A Living Memorial”.

Facilitators were Marji Lipshez-Shapiro (ADL staff) and Dr. Lauren Kempton.

This all-day workshop was attended by 25 teachers from Massachusetts and Connecticut who received the curriculum resource book which included lessons illustrated with maps, photographs, timelines, a glossary, and primary source material, along with a companion DVD of visual history testimony.

Included in the workshop was personal testimony from a local liberator who, with his unit at the end of WWII, was the first to enter Concentration Camp Buchenwald.

There was also a tour of Hatikvah’s exhibit illustrating how it ties in with the “A Echoes and Reflections” curriculum.

The curriculum, which supports national standards in Social Studies and English/Language Arts, is a state-of-the-art multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust developed by The Anti-Defamation League along with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and Yad Vashem (Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority) Included are ten multi-part lessons on the Holocaust with companion DVD of visual history testimonies from survivors and other witnesses. Through the study of the Holocaust, the “Echoes and Reflections” curriculum helps students connect with contemporary issues.