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.
Do they teach history in schools anymore to include the persecution and annihilation of 6 million Jews, many thousands of handicapped persons, gypsys, homosexuals and others they perceived as undesirable for their Aryan race??
How can people who know everything be so ignorant?
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8wipF1sqkY
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I bet not 1 in 10 know that Soviet and Maoist Communists killed ~100 millions in the 20th Century, either.”
When I bring up that statistic with moronials, their autonomic reply is “what about the hundreds of millions killed by capitalists”.
Poland as a country, by far had the highest death rate of any country during the war. They got it from both the Nazis and the Bolsheviks.
Yeah. But at least they take magnificent 'selfies' and can discuss the latest LGBTQ stuff at great length.
I also included the MIA count in my figure.
I am currently unable to find that number. I am also unable to distinguish between unidentified corpses, who are both “killed” and “missing”, and those whose bodies were never recovered.
And, if I recall correctly, I rounded-up slightly.
Whether it was 9000 per day or 10000 per day, it was undeniably a ghastly mess from which Europe has never recovered.
Bet Hogg and his gun grabbers haven’t a clue on this subject, either.
Well then, it’s probably a safe bet that they have no clue of the genocides perpetrated by the communists scumbags AFTER WWII.
The Cambodians, Hutu’s, Tutsi’s,etc. unfortunately do not control American media.
Cambodia, also had a terrible situation for a while.
There are a number of such instances.
It is important we remember them all.
I also included the MIA count in my figure.
I am currently unable to find that number. I am also unable to distinguish between unidentified corpses, who are counted as both “killed” and “missing”, and those whose bodies were never recovered.
And, if I recall correctly, I rounded-up slightly.
Whether it was 9000 per day or 10000 per day, it was undeniably a ghastly mess from which Europe has never recovered.
Oh its okay, there a lots of numbers to choose from, that is why I give the kids a break on not knowing one number from history
Someone also mentioned Rwanda.
That one is squarely on the Clinton Administration.
“Forget how many died...they don’t even know what WW I was all about, what started it, nor who won.”
I’ve studied WWI at length, had a grandfather who served in the German (Prussian?) Army, and live in a backwater of the former Ottoman Empire (Israel), and I can’t honestly say I know what WWI was all about, who started it, and can only kind of say who won.
Talk about a confused mess of a war.
I’m convinced the world would have been much better off had Britain, and subsequently the US, stayed out of WWI, even if it resulted in a German victory.
Germany was never going to be a threat to Britain, they had no designs on the British Empire. They wanted to rule the Continent, but were they really that much worse than the French?
“It seems to me that WW2 Jewish deaths are the most famous in the world.”
Probably. And the answer is not to discount teaching about the Shoa, however, but to teach about the others.
FWIW, what the communists did (primarily the Soviets) is well-taught in Israeli public schools.
the millennials in my company barely know they’re alive.
Yes. I believe they were pretty dangerous chaps.
The Nazis left a wealth of documentation, that’s why the Jewish deaths are more prominent, we have the images and the documents behind it.
The other atrocities were more hidden by their perpetrators.
“I’m convinced the world would have been much better off had Britain, and subsequently the US, stayed out of WWI, even if it resulted in a German victory.”
My grandfather (who was basically a kid in WWI) turned around and served in the US Army Air Corp.
He always said he served on the correct side of both world wars.
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