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Possibly the Jews are not effectively passing this story down to their grandchildren? Maybe intentionally so as not to spread “victimhood”, or maybe they don’t realize the ignorance that will follow.

But can you imagine if 60% of young African Americans were unaware of slavery before the Civil War?

Back in the 70's and 80's there was an active group of Holocaust deniers. This raised the attention of the Jewish Community. Books, movies, and lecture series were created to counter the deniers. I believe that a number of Holocaust museums were also created in reaction to the deniers.

But the Jews went one step too far IMHO. They banned Holocaust denials in many countries deeming it illegal hate speech. In the US they have made Holocaust denial a verboten topic that can get people fired from their jobs and shunned by people in general.

This led to a situation where there was no longer any Holocaust denial or Holocaust remembrance. The topic just fell off the radar.

I think it's better to allow people to deny the Holocaust and then present the facts to counter the deniers.

No one goes to jail for denying that we went to the Moon, and because of this when ever a loon does deny the Moon landings we get a slew of videos and books educating people on the Moon landings. A similar response was generated by the Flat Earth theory revival.

There was a robust discussion on You Tube a while back between Young Earth Creationists and Evolutionists. The YECs were humiliated and many people learned about evolution. But that discussion has disappeared and now YEC folks are crawling back out of their holes. But since talk of YEC is not verboten, there will once again be a thorough and educational discussion on the topic.

Better to let the haters and uninformed vent in public, rather than ruminate in the dark.

Believe me, they passed the stories down. The children of survivors at times had their own forms of depression due to the parents trauma and PTSD; they never had a normal relationship with the survivor parent(s), thus creating their own issues. Not in most cases, but not uncommon.

They also felt the need to prevent this sort of thing from happening again, so they passed it on. It was rare for a family member not to share their story with their younger kin, but again, due to PTSD.

My Grandpa was in the Pacific, and when I was in middle school (’98-’01), we had survivors and veterans come and speak, along with a month-long unit on WWII.

Wish they’d covered communism in the same way.