Hundreds of young people across the United States show a worrying level of ignorance about the Holocaust, according to a new national survey published by the Claims Conference.
One thousand interviews with “millennials” and “Generation Z” young adults, aged 18 to 39, revealed that many believe the Jews caused the Holocaust — in New York alone, 19 per cent of respondents blamed the Jews.
Sixty three per cent of all those questioned nationally did not know that six million Jews were murdered — and a shocking 36 per cent thought the number was “two million or fewer”.
A further 48 per cent of respondents could not name a single concentration camp or ghetto. More than half of those questioned — 56 per cent — were unable to identify Auschwitz-Birkenau.
