Most people believe a genocide of Jews could happen today, multi-country survey finds
The Times of Israel reports: “A majority of people in seven countries believe a mass genocide against Jewish people similar to the Holocaust could happen today, according to a survey published by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The report — which surveyed people in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Romania — also exposed a global trend of fading knowledge of basic facts about the Holocaust, the Claims Conference said.
It showed that almost half of young adults in France don’t even know what the Holocaust is.
The report was published ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27. Data was collected from a representative sample of one thousand adults in each country in November 2023.
Some 76 percent of people in the United States said they thought another Holocaust could happen, followed by the UK at 69%, France at 63%, Austria at 62%, Germany at 61%, Poland at 54%, and Hungary at 52%. In Romania, 44% said they thought such a scenario was possible…”
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