U.S. teachers to receive access to "Auschwitz. In Front of your Eyes" through the Echoes & Reflections programme

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation has established a partnership with Echoes & Reflections, one of the most significant Holocaust education programmes in the United States. As a result, American high school teachers will be able to use the "Auschwitz. In Front of your Eyes" platform, which offers guided online tours of the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum for students.

In 2026, the Foundation and Echoes & Reflections will provide groups of teachers with free access to online tours. This will enable them to use this modern educational tool and later implement it in their own schools and communities.

"The potential scale of this cooperation is of particular importance to us. Since its launch in 2005, Echoes & Reflections has reached over 175,000 educators, who have the capacity to impact millions of students across the United States. This opens up a significant opportunity to bring education from the authentic site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz into American classrooms," said Wojciech Soczewica, Director General of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.

“We are thrilled by this exciting new collaboration. The ability to bring U.S. educators virtually to this important site of Holocaust history, will in no doubt enhance their knowledge and teaching skills to deepen student learning and understanding,” said Lindsay J. Friedman, Managing Director of Echoes & Reflections.

As part of this joint effort, every online tour will be accompanied by an additional educational component prepared by Echoes & Reflections. This will include guidance for teachers on how best to prepare students for participation in a future online tour, as well as access to additional classroom materials and pedagogical recommendations. Echoes & Reflections will also develop a set of online resources to support teachers in preparing for and discussing the experience with their students.

For the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, this collaboration represents an important step in expanding the international reach of Auschwitz and Holocaust education. Making the "Auschwitz. In Front of your Eyes" program available to teachers in the United States not only provides a way to reach a wide audience for whom a visit to the Memorial is often impossible, but also provides support for responsible, in-depth education based on authenticity and a reliable historical narrative.

Echoes & Reflections is a partnership program of Anti-Defamation League (ADL), USC Shoah Foundation, and Yad Vashem.