(Jewish Group) In UK poll, most respondents don't know how many Jews perished in the Holocaust

[Behind the Aegis]

In a survey among 2,000 adult Britons, 52% did not seem to know how many Jews died in the Holocaust and 22% couldn’t name a single concentration camp.

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, or Claims Conference, on Wednesday published the results of the survey, which it had conducted in the United Kingdom in October ahead of Nov. 10, the anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms in Germany and Austria.

“We are very concerned to see the profound gaps in knowledge of the Holocaust,” said Gideon Taylor, the president of the Claims Conference, which is the body representing Jewish communities and organizations in reparations talks with Germany.

The organization’s findings about levels of Holocaust awareness in Britain suggest Americans are less knowledgeable than Britons.

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Oh, dear.

The 6 million number should be engraved on everyone.

I am not Jewish. I'm Irish American, as in all four of my grandparents came here from Ireland. When growing up the elderly aunts would look at me and say, "She has the map of Ireland on her face" which I didn't fully appreciate until the first time I went to Ireland and realized that every single person I saw looked exactly like my brothers and sisters and cousins. Isn't genetics wonderful?

I just finished Survivor Cafe by Elizabeth Rosner. She is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, and this book is about their experiences as well as the larger experiences of all who have been in any way part of the Holocaust, as well as other mass exterminations in various places. An amazing book. Please read it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. This is sad

Never forget