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.
too busy watching porn, playing computer games, or getting drugged up
that was written about the students but... it applies at least as well to many of their ‘teachers’
But we should DEFINITELY lower the voting age AND let the children dictate what the Second Amendment means.
Belgium scholar analyzes the “the bloodiest story in history”
https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=4465
Why did the Germans sink the Lusitania?
Was it running arms to Britain? That’s still a point of argument.
But recognize Britain had a full naval blockade of Germany, which was very effective.
So what was Germany supposed to do? Their only option was to try to stop goods getting to Britain, hence the U-Boats. And because of Britain’s blockade, the end result was that it indeed put US ships at risk.
“How many people died in WWI - without looking it up please.”
What most people don’t comprehend is the impact of the deaths on male/female distributions and what it did to voting patterns. That is the real legacy of WWI.
The most lasting impact is that the sheer number of deaths of the best of the European male population on all sides, ultimately led to the feminization of Western society, which is why in large part where are where we are today.
After WWII, Europe simply didn’t have enough men, so what did they have to do? Import them, many from Third-World countries, and now you see the rotten fruit of that.
It doesn’t matter where on earth brutality and crimes against humanity occur. You did indeed get a poor education and your subsequent callousness is apparent.
I thought the current estimate is 4.5 million Jews murdered.
Losing about 4% of their population in the First World War didn't make countries feminized enough to avoid the Second World War. Nor did losses in our Civil War make Americans more feminized. So I'm going to have to put the blame or responsibility on non-biological, non-genetic factors.
Amazing traveling through rural France and seeing those Monuments to Les Infants - whole generation wiped out. My wifes grandfather was born two weeks after his father died at Verdun. He was in turn taken by the Germans for farm labor when his son was 2.
I once met a German who hated the idea of having Holocaust memorials in the U.S. If she saw your post here, she’d say: “How many people in Dallas were complicit in the Holocaust?”
So, if you don’t know about the Holocaust, should you be forbidden from comparing The Donald (or anyone else) to Hitler?
It was covered in my History class. The teacher brought in pictures to show. It was the worse pictures I had ever seen in my life, at that time.
I remember those pictures to this day (45 years later).
My father who served in the Phillipines protected his daughters from the sights he saw; but he shared the values he learned from that experience.
This is not directed at you personally.
I think Real History should be taught in our education system.
If what you've said is true, then why is the Holocaust included in many school curricula that don't cover any other atrocities in history?
They’ve been taught that Jews are white and only Black Lives Matter.
My school curricula were heavily focused on U.S. history and the development of critical thinking skills. These served us well for those who wanted to take elective courses covering other parts of the world.
Great!
Doubtful. These kids don't learn much of anything about history. Nothing much sinks in.
I am sure they are equally unaware of Pol Pot’s children’s brigades who confiscated all the guns before the Killing Fields of Cambodia could be fulfilled.
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