In 2020, the first 50-state survey on Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Gen Z found
that most young Americans lack basic knowledge of the Holocaust. For example, 63% of survey
respondents did not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, nearly 60% did
not know what the concentration camp Auschwitz was, and 11% believed that Jews caused the
Holocaust.
The kids are going to be okay.
Such Holocaust education should include, for example, instruction on the roles of Nazi racial antisemitism,
longstanding European antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and the propaganda during the
Holocaust, not just the facts of what happened during the 1930s and 1940s that resulted in the
systematic murder of European Jews
"Don't focus on facts. Blame European history as a whole."
The kids are going to be okay.
"Don't focus on facts. Blame European history as a whole."
meanwhile, what does genZ and millennials knowledge of the Armenian genocide look like?
Or the Holodomor, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Cambodia's Genocide...
And my axe!
Wait, wrong meme.