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ada Loeffler, left. Rosa Gold and Dave Gold lay a memorial wreath at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park. Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Kansas City Jewry's monument to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Thursday in Washington, D.C., President Clinton will dedicate the National Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Survey finds 'disturbing' results
Holocaust might not have happened, 20 percent say
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — More than one in five U.S. citizens in a recent survey said they thought it was possible the Holocaust never happened, the American Jewish Committee announced yesterday.
The Roper Organization survey, called the first systematic study of U.S. citizens' knowledge of the Nazis' extermination of 6 million Jews before and during World War II, also showed that 38 percent of adults and 53 percent of high school students did not know the meaning of the term Holocaust.
"The only word that comes to mind is it's frightening," said Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivi-
vor who chronicled his experiences at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
David Singer, research director for the American Jewish Committee, said it is "a horrifying thought" that so many Americans, including those who lived through World War II, are open to the possibility there never was a Holocaust.
"Clearly, there are people who are making an effort to promote Holocaust denial." Singer said. "Clearly, these people have to be taken seriously in the context of these findings."
Release of the survey results coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising that began on April 19, 1943. When German forces moved to liquidate the ghetto, 1,000 of the 50,000 Jews there fought back for the first time.
In conducting the survey for the Jewish committee, Roper interviewed 992 adults Nov. 14-21 and 506 high school students Oct. 19-30, all in their homes. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points for
the adult survey and plus or minus 5 points for the high school survey.
The survey found that 72 percent of adults and 64 percent of high school students said it was essential or very important for all U.S. citizens to know about and understand the Holocaust. In addition, 63 percent of adult respondents and 54 percent of high school respondents rejected the idea that the Holocaust is not relevant today.
But the survey also found a disturbing lack of knowledge about the Holocaust, Singer said.
For example, 65 percent of adults and 71 percent of high school students failed to recognize 6 million as the approximate number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. Thirty-eight percent of adults and 51 percent of high school students did not identify Auschwitz, Dachau and Treblinka as concentration camps.
Singer said the results show the need for more education on the Holocaust.
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