Almost a quarter of young adults in America (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth or had been exaggerated or weren’t sure. One in eight (12%) said they had definitely not heard, or didn’t think they had heard, about the Holocaust. https://t.co/bUiN0F3JAv
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 16, 2020
Yikes: "A nationwide survey released Wednesday shows a 'worrying lack of basic Holocaust knowledge' among adults under 40, including over 1 in 10 respondents who did not recall ever having heard the word 'Holocaust' before" https://t.co/SV7AxCpnMF
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) September 16, 2020
"It is becoming clear that future generations may one day call these stories into question; they may not believe the horrors that Holocaust survivors endured and the atrocities we witnessed….We must not let this happen," writes one Holocaust survivor.https://t.co/LilAaK7daf
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 16, 2020
‼️Eleven per cent of respondents across the US believed that Jews had caused the Holocaust. https://t.co/rUw3gFEIBs
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) September 16, 2020
A different interpretation:
The @guardian article and Holocaust poll running around is reported extremely disingenuously. The headline doesn't hold up if you look at the actual results.
— Natalie Jackson (@nataliemj10) September 16, 2020
People are not certain on # killed. But most know a LOT were killed.
ONLY 1% say it's a myth.
96% believe it happened. pic.twitter.com/NHAZirrkbC
Survey finds "shocking and saddening" lack of Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Gen Z https://t.co/LnR3Egt1u8
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 16, 2020
Millennials and Generation Z show a disturbing lack of Holocaust knowledge in a new survey. But even more alarming is the high percentage of respondents who believe Jews were responsible for the Holocaust or that the Holocaust is a myth or exaggerated. https://t.co/aPaBT4NU7i
— US Holocaust Museum (@HolocaustMuseum) September 16, 2020
We can be shocked every year that studies show Americans don't know about the Holocaust or we could…teach about the Holocaust. This is something I wrote about just that in 2018: https://t.co/E5RKZMFsfM
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) September 16, 2020
Dwight Eisenhower on Holocaust “Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
— Robert Windrem (@rwindrem) September 17, 2020
Sad! 