FROM PARIS TO AUSCHWITZ: UNCOVERING THE HOLOCAUST IN FRANCE

July 14th, 2025

4:00 PM ET

Our webinars are designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust history, explore and access classroom-ready content, and support instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of this complex history and its lasting effect on the world.

After the Nazi occupation of France in June 1940, life changed rapidly for the approximately 340,000 Jews living there—many of whom were targeted not just by German forces, but by their own countrymen. Through discriminatory laws, arrests, and mass roundups—with the first deportations to Auschwitz beginning in 1942—the collaboration between the French, including the Vichy government, and the Nazis led to devastating consequences.

Join Echoes & Reflections Director of Holocaust Content & Pedagogy Jesse Tannetta as he demonstrates how to integrate photographs, survivor testimonies, and other compelling primary sources to help students connect with the human stories behind the statistics—and deepen their understanding of how the Holocaust was implemented in Western Europe.

This webinar connects to Unit 5 on the Echoes & Reflections website.

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