CNN Features TOLI Op-Ed On Importance Of Holocaust Education

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Jan
30
2019

We are pleased to share with you this op-ed written by Harry D. Wall, a member of TOLI’s Board of Directors, which appeared on CNN.com for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27th.

Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing

By Harry D. Wall
Updated 2311 GMT (0711 HKT) January 27, 2019

(CNN)- Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing, particularly among young people. In the United States, a 2018 survey showed that 66% of millennials could not identify what the Auschwitz concentration and death camp was.

A recent CNN poll in Europe revealed that about a third of the 7,000 European respondents across seven countries knew “just a little or nothing at all” about the Holocaust. In France, nearly 20% of young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 said they had never heard of the Holocaust….

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