• Can you name one concentration camp or one ghetto?Nationally, 48% couldn't name one camp or ghetto out of 40,000 of them in Europe and North Africa. In some states the number was as high as 60%.
• What is Auschwitz?56% of all millennials we unable to identify the most known death camp: Auschwitz-Birkenau. As to the other less know but still historically relevant such as Dachau, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald, only 1-3% could identify them.
• How many Jews died in the Holocaust?It is important to remember that overall, a total of 12 million people died in the Holocaust. Additionally, the number of millennials who didn't know that six million Jews died in the Holocaust was a scary 63% nationally, as high as 67% in some states. Most respondents thought that two million or less died.
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