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The government's pledge earlier this year of £50 million towards a new Holocaust memorial and learning centre shows how seriously remembrance of the Shoah is now taken in Britain.
Over the past 30 years the subject has moved from the margins of national life, largely thanks to an annual memorial day and space on the national curriculum.
But what do children actually know? This week's comprehensive 270-page report from the CHE sheds unprecedented light on the grasp of the subject within English secondary schools.
On the positive front, the researchers found that "overwhelmingly" students recognised the term "the Holocaust", and the majority most clearly associated it with the persecution and mass murder of the Jews.
