Holocaust Study: Two-thirds of Millenials Don't Know What Auschwitz Is

Those who do not know history will repeat it.

Washington Post
Julie Zauzmer April 12 Email the author

This post has been updated.

Two-thirds of American millennials surveyed in a recent poll cannot identify what Auschwitz is, according to a study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day that found that knowledge of the genocide that killed 6 million Jews during World War II is not robust among American adults.

Twenty-two percent of millennials in the poll said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust or are not sure whether they’ve heard of it — twice the percentage of U.S. adults as a whole who said the same.

The study, conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, interviewed 1,350 American adults in February and recruited by telephone and an online non-probability sample.

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It was real. It systematically, like an assembly line, murdered 11 Million people.