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As part of the art project “Writing Against Forgetting”, the names of the victims of the Frankfurt Holocaust are written on the street in chalk. Image: keystone
“The Jews Made The Holocaust” – Poll Shows A Knowledge Gap In The US
A survey shows that twelve percent of respondents in the US have never heard of the Holocaust.
In the United States, 11 percent of adults under 40 believe that Jews caused the Holocaust, according to a new study. At the same time, 63 percent do not know that around six million Jews were killed in the process. This was the result of a poll released Wednesday for the Claims Conference.
Twelve percent of US citizens surveyed said they had never heard of the Holocaust. The Claims Conference, an association of Jews, handles material compensation for survivors.
1,000 adults surveyed in the US It found that the proportion of those who hold Jews accountable for the Holocaust is particularly high in New York state at 19 percent. Ignorance about the number of victims was particularly high in Arkansas (69 percent) and Delaware (68 percent).
More than concrete: the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. Image: keystone
Holocaust is the term used almost throughout the world to designate the genocide of the Jewish population of Europe by the National Socialists. About six million people were victims of it.
The term Holocaust comes from the Greek word “holokauston” and means holocaust (literally: “completely burned”). People of the Jewish faith primarily use the Hebrew word Shoah, which means catastrophe. (sda / dpa)
