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What ARE They Teaching in Schools?! 2/3 of Millennials Don't Know Auschwitz Was a Nazi Death Camp, Survey Reports

Mark A. Kellner-Religion News Service : Apr 13, 2018
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"I was astounded by those figures. This just goes to show the world forgets easily, and we pay a dear price for not remembering." -Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center

[ChristianHeadlines.com] Most American millennials don't know what Auschwitz was, a survey finds. (Photo: Children imprisoned at Auschwitz Nazi death camp/Facebook /via Christian Headlines)

Despite the slaughter of nearly a million Jews—as well as hundreds of thousands of Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others—at the World War II Nazi death camp, a survey commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany found that 66 percent of Americans ages 18 to 34 "cannot identify what Auschwitz was." The figure for all adults was 41 percent.

The survey also found that 31 percent of all Americans and more than 4-in-10 millennials believe that...

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