Byline: 

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it

George Santayana

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Pew research uncovered the following: 

1. Most U.S. adults know what the Holocaust was

2. Most know approximately when it happened

3. Two-Thirds know that Jews were forced to live in ghettos

4. Fewer than half know about the number of Jews who were killed or how Hitler came to power. On-in-ten over estimate the number of Jews killed and 15% think the number is 3 million or less

5. 20% know nothing about the Holocaust

6. 90% of Jews know about the Holocaust

7. Only 75% of college graduates get some of the answers about the Holocaust correctly

8. If the average American knows personally a Jew, they tend to score higher

   1. Only a minority know that Hitler came to power legally

   2. Teens know less about the Holocaust than the overall population. Their lack of knowledge reflects their poor training in history.

How Do I describe the Holocaust?

1. One Third of All Jews died, some 6 million

2. On 9/11, America lost slightly more than 3,000 people. From 1939-1945, 3,000 Jews died every day

3. 90% of surviving Jews live either in Israel or North America

4. The outlook for European Jewry is dismal. Anti-Semitism is rampant throughout the Continent, including Great Britain, France, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union.

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