Quarter of Dutch youngsters say the Holocaust is a myth

A survey in the Netherlands reveals staggering data about the lack of knowledge of the Holocaust, in particular among younger people, writes Jotam Confino.

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) released the Knowledge and Awareness Survey people were interviewed by Schoen Cooperman Research.

The survey found that 23 percent of Dutch millennials and Gen Z respondents believe the Holocaust is a myth, or that it happened but the number of Jews who were killed has been greatly exaggerated.

The survey did, however, find agreement that Holocaust denial and Holocaust distortion are problems in the Netherlands today: 62 percent agreed with this. 65 percent also agree that there is widespread or some antisemitism in the Netherlands today. However, 22 percent of millennials and Gen Z think it is acceptable for a person to support neo-Nazi views.

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A Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust will be unveiled at the memorial exhibit in Dubai.

Matthew Bronfman, Claims Conference Task Force the gap in knowledge of key historical facts about the Shoah in The Netherlands and concern about Holocaust denial and distortion “are the result of multiple

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This is the first time one of the 1564 Czech scrolls has been allocated to a museum in the Arab and Islamic world.

“Social media is part of the problem. It can be a great place to spread accurate information through thoughtful education campaigns. Unfortunately, social media is widely unchecked and serves as an equally strong platform problem. It can be a great place to for disinformation.” of Dutch respondents, including 37

In comparison, 15 percent of millennials and Gen Z in the UK believe the same. Despite more than 70 percent of Jews who lived in the Netherlands being killed, 53 percent of all Dutch respondents, including 60 percent of millennials and Gen Z, don’t think the Holocaust happened in their country. 29 percent of Dutch respondents, including 37 percent of millennials and Gen Z respondents, believe that two million or fewer Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

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The lack of knowledge includes concentration camps, with 31 percent of all respondents unable to name a camp or ghetto. The number unaware is higher among millennials and Gen Z, with 44 percent unable to name a camp or ghetto.

Previous studies showed a similar trend in the UK, with 32 percent of all British respondents, and 41 percent of millennials and Gen Z unable to name a camp or ghetto.

Ignorance among younger people is widespread

Bronfman stressed the need to make

Bronfman stressed the need to make Holocaust education a priority by gov- ernment and educators. the Holocaust and give students a real

The number 48272 was tattooed on the Etzim (scroll poles) when catalogued in Prague, where it had been sent from Svetla Nad Sazavou in Bohemia. After being stored in the ruined synagogue at Michle outside Prague for almost 20 years, they were sent to Westminster Synagogue in 1964, which set up the Memorial Scrolls Trust to take care of them.

“The population of first-hand witnesses who can speak to the events of the Holocaust and give students a real understanding of the personal cost of such atrocities is waning. It is urgent that we create programmes for Holocaust education and survivor testimony. The bright light in this survey is that a good percentage of respondents, not just in The Netherlands but across all of the countries we have surveyed, want continued and more robust Holocaust education,” he said.

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Ahmed Obaid Al Mansoori, founder of the Crossroad of Civilizations Museum in Dubai, picked out the scroll at the Memorial Scrolls Trust in London along with Je rey Ohrenstein, the trust’s chairman.“We particularly chose a large scroll with very clear Hebrew writing so you could see it even from the back of the exhibition. It’s a scroll that makes enormous impression,” Ohrenstein told Jewish News

The event on Saturday is part of the museum’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration and will be addressed by the Israeli and German ambassadors .Edwin Shuker, vice-president of the Board of Deputies, will also be attending.