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Survey finds 'shocking' lack of Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Gen Z


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Respondents in New York, Indiana and California — which do require Holocaust education — were most likely to believe the Holocaust is a myth or has been exaggerated, at rates higher than 20 percent of the surveyed population."Holocaust education is extremely local," Schneider said. "It is very meaningful when you see a student listening to a survivor, hearing how individuals responded to this watershed event in human history and thinking not only what would I have done but what will I do with the choices I face today."Still, educators are preparing for the day when there are no more living Holocaust survivors to join the classroom, including efforts to digitize their stories."The fact that that recorded testimony exists and is being collected and maintained is a really useful tool now, and it will continue to be a useful tool in the future," said Ariel Behrman, who heads the Anti-Defamation League's Echoes & Reflections program, a Holocaust education program in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California and Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.The Echoes & Reflections program has reached over 14,250 schools and 72,000 teachers at no cost to educators, according to its website."The interest is there, without a doubt," Behrman said. Eighty percent of the Claims Conference survey respondents agreed that it was important to learn about the Holocaust partly so it never happens again."We've seen it time and time again," Schneider said.

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