Article contentA new U.S. survey shows that adults under 40 years of age have a “worrying lack of basic Holocaust knowledge,” with more than 60 per cent failing to realize that six million Jews perished in the slaughter surrounding the Second World War. The survey, commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, focused on millennials and Generation Z, NBC reports. Try refreshing your browser, or Holocaust: New U.S. survey shows adults under 40 have 'shocking' ignorance of slaughter Back to videoThe Claims Conference non-profit, which is focused on Holocaust victim rights and compensation, called the results “shocking.”The survey relied on 1,000 evenly divided interviews across 50 U.S. states, targeting those aged 18 to 39, at random but demographically representative. Overall 63 per cent were unaware of the Holocaust’s full death tally, and more than half thought the figure had been under two million. Almost half could not even name a single war-era ghetto or concentration camp.

Source: National Post September 16, 2020 16:17 UTC