Posted on 04/12/2018 2:12:06 PM PDT by EdnaMode
More than one-fifth of millennials in the U.S. -- 22 percent -- haven't heard of, or aren't sure if they've heard of, the Holocaust, according to a study published Thursday, on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day. The study, which was commissioned by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and conducted by Schoen Consulting, also found that 11 percent of U.S. adults overall haven't heard of the Holocaust or aren't sure if they did.
Additionally, 41 percent of millennials believe two million Jews or fewer were killed during the Holocaust, the study found. Six million Jews were killed in World War II by Nazi Germany and its accomplices.
Two-thirds of millennials could not identify in the survey what Auschwitz was.
"The survey found there are critical gaps both in awareness of basic facts as well as detailed knowledge of the Holocaust," said a news release on the findings.
A majority of American adults surveyed -- 70 percent -- agreed with a statement reading: "Fewer people seem to care about the Holocaust as much as they used to." And 58 percent of Americans believe that something like the Holocaust could happen again, the survey found.
The study on Holocaust awareness and knowledge in the U.S. was conducted between February 23 and 27 and involved 1,350 interviews with American adults 18 and older.
"This study underscores the importance of Holocaust education in our schools," Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Claims Conference said in a statement. "There remain troubling gaps in Holocaust awareness while survivors are still with us; imagine when there are no longer survivors here to tell their stories."
Israelis stood still on Thursday for a nationwide moment of silence in remembrance of the Jewish victims, as a two-minute siren wailed across the country and the nation paid respects to those systematically killed. As every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, buses and cars halted on streets and highways and Israelis stepped out of their vehicles, standing with heads bowed in solemn remembrance.
The somber day is also marked by ceremonies and memorials at schools and community centers. Restaurants and cafes in the ordinarily bustling streets of Tel Aviv shutter, and TV and radio stations play Holocaust-themed programs. Dignitaries laid wreaths at Yad Vashem, the national Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
A third of the world's Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Israel was established afterward in 1948, and hundreds of thousands of survivors fled to the Jewish state.
Mission Accomplished.
...and 1/3 believes the earth is flat.
It’s almost as if someone wanted to dumb down a generation so they’re more compliant & accepting of totalitarianism.
How many people died in WWI - without looking it up please.
And therefore likely that 9 in 10 have no idea of the many 10s of millions killed by Stalin and Mao. Since they are uneducated, they believe the propaganda that socialism / communism would be just super.
This really has nothing to do with our education system. I never about any of this in school. It wasn’t because I got a poor education. It just isn’t a subject that would be covered in any of the history classes we had. It’s not like Auschwitz was in Pennsylvania.
the public schools here start teaching the holocaust in 4th grade. Too early IMO. Catholic schools, maybe 6th?
I wish they would cover Communist slaughters. For sure they cover the deaths in the American slave trade and wars against the natives.
For sure they don’t cover Muslim conquest and slaughter.
What a bloody species we are.
Even here in downtown Dallas, there is a Holocaust Museum.
I hate polls like this. They really don't tell us much. In some public schools the teachers are allowed to actually spend their time teaching students who are curious and inquisitive. In other public schools, the teachers' primary concern is staying off worldstar as they're getting beaten to a pulp for taking away someone's cell phone.
Soldiers - 10,000 a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year for over four years.
Non-combatants, probably a like number.
Forget how many died...they don’t even know what WW I was all about, what started it, nor who won.
They also don’t know about Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears either.
I had it my history class. A lot on it. But that was decades ago.
I bet not 1 in 10 know that Soviet and Maoist Communists killed ~100 millions in the 20th Century, either.
Public education is all about victims and oppressors, you can bet the Holocaust gets covered in detail at the expense of other equally significant events and periods.
your number 14.5MM +
wiki 9-11MM
I would give the kids a pass on not knowing the number.
Then they certainly know of the tens of millions Of his own people Stalin murdered. Or the tens of millions of his own people Mao murdered.
I agree.
There are a number of countries throughout history with things such as this.
It seems to me that WW2 Jewish deaths are the most famous in the world.
By far.
Less than were killed by the Spanish flu.
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