A report has found some Americans – especially millennials – lack basic knowledge about the Holocaust. SBS News asked people in Australia for their thoughts.
Thursday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, the annual marker to remember the systematic murder of six million Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
But it also marked the release of a survey that showed many Americans – in particular millennials – lack basic knowledge about the historical event.
The Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Study – which surveyed 1,350 people – found 11 per cent of American adults and more than one-fifth of millennials either hadn’t heard of, or were not sure if they had heard of, the Holocaust.
It also found two-thirds of US millennials cannot properly identify what Auschwitz was.
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