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| Holocaust (un)awareness surveys: America and Holland |
| 2023-01-27 |
Forgetting history as more recent terrible events demand attention. Nearly a quarter of young adults in Netherlands think Holocaust a myth, survey finds[IsraelTimes] ‘Disturbing lack of awareness’: Poll says over half of Dutch don’t know Holocaust took place in their country or that 6 million Jews died A Jewish group that commissioned a survey on Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands said Wednesday that the results showed “a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust,” prompting calls for better education in the nation that was home to diarist Anne Frank and her family. The survey commissioned by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany found that the number of respondents who believe the Holocaust is a myth was higher than in any of the other five nations previously surveyed. In the survey, 23% of adults under age 40 and 12% of all respondents indicated they believed the Holocaust was a myth or that the number of Jews killed had been greatly exaggerated. “Not only is this downright shocking, it’s very serious,” Dutch Justice Minister Dilan Yesilgöz-Zegerius said on Twitter. “Almost a quarter of the Dutch people born after 1980 think that the Holocaust is a ‘myth’ or that it is heavily ‘exaggerated.’ As a society, we have a lot of work to do. And fast, too.” The survey also found that 54% of all respondents — and 59% of those under age 40 — do not know that 6 million Jews were murdered. Some 29 percent believe that the figure is 2 million or fewer. And so forth. Most Americans lack some basic knowledge about Holocaust — poll [IsraelTimes] AJC survey finds just 53% know 6 million Jews were killed, and more than one in three think Hitler came to power in a violent coup, highlighting gaps in Shoah education Just over half of American adults are familiar with the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust, and even fewer know that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler came to power democratically, according to a survey on the state of Holocaust education released Tuesday. The poll of 1,004 American adults, published by the American Jewish Committee days ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, found that only one in four — twenty-six percent — could correctly answer four basic questions about the Shoah. Thirty percent of respondents answered three questions correctly and another quarter knew two. While 85% identified Auschwitz as a death camp and 76% were able to place the Holocaust between 1930 and 1950, just 53% knew that 6 million Jews were killed. Another 20% said they did not know how many, while 13% said fewer than 3 million and 11% said over 12 million. Thirty-nine percent of respondents knew how Hitler came to power, but almost as many (34%) thought he took over Germany via a violent coup. According to the AJC, the results demonstrated a strong link between general education level and knowledge about the Holocaust, with those with a college or high school degree answering all four questions correctly at a higher rate than those without. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Once upon a time it was taught as an example of the Jewish experience under the Nazis. More recently it’s been presented as a generic experience of Nazi HATE, with no explanation of who the Nazis hated or what the big picture result of that hatred was. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-27 22:15 |
| #2 I think it still is. It is hard to poll intelligent people anywhere about anything. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-27 12:56 |
| #1 ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ was required reading when I was in jr high. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2023-01-27 09:53 |