International Holocaust Day: 66% of millennia do not know what is Auschwitz

This January 27, we show the world International Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust. On that date, in 1945, the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz was liberated. In 2005, the United Nations designated this date to commemorate the Nazi mbadacre.

This task is particularly relevant today, in which there are fewer and fewer survivors of Nazi barbarism and growing ignorance of what happened in the Holocaust.

According to a study published by the Claims Conference in April of last year, the percentage of people who ignore the history of the darkest period of humanity increases, something that is even more marked in the new generation.

The study showed disturbing results in the United States. For example, although there are more than 40,000 concentration camps and ghettos, 45% of Americans can not even name one. Of the millennia (or generation Y), 66% can not say what Auschwitz is.

31% of Americans think that less than two million people were killed during the Holocaust, this percentage reaching 41% among the millennia.

In addition, 22% of millennials (one in five) had not heard of the Holocaust or did not know what it was.

Another similar survey conducted in Canada also shows similar results: 54% of Canadian adults did not know how many Jews died in the Holocaust, a percentage that has increased 62% over the millennia.

In the same survey, 72% of Canadians said they did not know who was Elie Wiesel and only 55% knew who it was Oskar Schindler.

In a survey conducted in England by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, One in five English also claimed that less than two million Jews had died in the Holocaust and half of all respondents said that they did not know how many Jews had died.