Echoes and Reflections

In 1993, Yad Vashem established the International Institute for Holocaust Research as an autonomous academic research department. Since its inception, the Institute’s goal has been to encourage and support worldwide scholarly research on the Holocaust and related topics.

In 2005, Yad Vashem partnered with the Anti-Defamation League and USC Shoah Foundation to create Echoes & Reflections, a professional development program designed to equip educators in the United States to teach the Holocaust accurately and authentically to today’s students.

Since its inception, the program has reached over 10M students and trained 168,000 educators in more than 18,000 schools across all 50 states.