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In 2015 the Blavatnik Archive developed a collaborative relationship with Middlebury college, sharing selected veteran testimonies and Judaica artifacts with students in Professor Rebecca Bennette’s undergraduate class, Jews in Modern Europe.  "The resources of the Blavatnik Archive have tremendously enriched my course on the history of the Jews in modern Europe,” Professor Bennette shared. “Seeing the veterans’ testimonies featured on the archive’s website was an eye opening experience for my students that fundamentally changed the way they viewed the narrative of European Jewish life during WWII.  The wonderful staff was also very helpful in providing my students with digitized copies of some of their rich holdings that one would normally only be able to view by traveling onsite to an archive.  Consequently, my class was able to partake in experiential learning by working with archival primary sources as professional historians do. Indeed, one student remarked that looking at the archived postcards with the handwritten messages of the people who sent them almost a century ago on the backside brought history 'home' to her in a way that had never happened before and was a highlight of her college career."