Fifty-six percent reported having seen Nazi symbols on social media or in their communities within the past five years. The survey shows that about half of millennial and Gen Z respondents have seen Holocaust denial or distortion posts online. Part of the problem may be social media, experts say. "And when we fail to actively remember the facts of what happened, we risk a situation where prejudice and anti-Semitism will encroach on those facts." "There is no doubt that Holocaust denial is a form of anti-Semitism," said Deborah Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University in Atlanta. The number climbs to 19 percent in New York, the state with the largest Jewish population. One of the most disturbing revelations, the survey noted, is that 11 percent of respondents believe Jews caused the Holocaust. Seven percent were not sure, and 3 percent denied that it happened. Just 90 percent of respondents said they believed that the Holocaust happened. The findings raise concerns not just about Holocaust ignorance, but also about Holocaust denial. Visitors look at the pictures of Jews who were killed during the Nazi Holocaust at the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Memorial museum in Jerusalem. It was led by a task force that included Holocaust survivors, historians and experts from museums, educational institutions and nonprofits. The survey's data came from 11,000 interviews across the country, conducted by phone and online with a random, demographically representative sample of respondents ages 18 to 39. The lack of Holocaust knowledge demonstrated in the study is "shocking" and "saddening," said the Claims Conference, a nonprofit that works to secure material compensation for Holocaust survivors.
Using tactics like gas wagons, concentration camps and firing squads, the regime targeted the Jewish people in particular for annihilation and killed nearly 2 of every 3 European Jews by 1945. The genocide campaign targeted groups believed by Adolf Hitler's government to be biologically inferior because of anti-Semitism, homophobia or the like.
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored mass persecution and murder of millions of people under the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "If we let these trends continue for another generation, the crucial lessons from this terrible part of history could be lost." "The most important lesson is that we can't lose any more time," said Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which commissioned the study.
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