![]() ![]() study, where 45 percent could not name one such place. While there were over 40,000 concentration camps and ghettos in Europe during the Holocaust, 49 percent of Canadian respondents couldn’t name a single camp or ghetto, similar to the U.S.Clearly, there are holes in our education system that must be filled because as it stands now, we are not preparing the next generation to learn from the past.”Īdditional significant gaps in knowledge about the Holocaust that are revealed by the survey include: I was shocked and disappointed to see the Canadian results. Naomi Azrieli says, “When we heard about the first Claims Conference study by Schoen in the U.S., we were keen to know how we were doing in Canada. Participants in the task force included: the Azrieli Foundation, Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Claims Conference. Photo: Yad Vashem, the Auschwitz AlbumĪ task force, which was comprised of Holocaust survivors, as well as representatives from Holocaust museums, educational institutions, and leading nonprofits in the field of Holocaust education helped develop the survey questions. Jewish women selected for slave labor at Auschwitz after their heads had been shaved. compared to only 17 percent who say there are a “great deal” or “many” neo-Nazis in Canada. 47 percent of the Canadian respondents say there are a “great deal” or “many” neo-Nazis in the U.S. Nearly six out of ten Canadians (57 percent) say fewer people seem to care about the Holocaust than they used to.Ĭanadian perceptions of the neo-Nazi movement in the United States are quite disturbing.Nearly one-quarter of all Canadians (23 percent) believe that substantially less than six million Jews were killed (two million or fewer) during the Holocaust, while another near-quarter (24 percent) were unsure of how many were killed.22% of millennials haven’t heard or are not sure if they have heard of the Holocaust.An alarming 52% of millennials cannot name even one concentration camp or ghetto and 62% of millennials did not know that six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.Nearly half (48 percent) say something like the Holocaust could happen in other Western democracies today.And, while a significant majority of Canadian adults believe that fewer people care about the Holocaust today than they used to, there was a broad-based consensus for providing comprehensive Holocaust education in schools across the country. For example, 54 percent of those surveyed did not know that six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Similar to the April 2018 survey in the United States, the Canadian study found critical gaps both regarding awareness of historical basic facts and detailed knowledge of the Holocaust. ![]()
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