A survey found that awareness of the Holocaust is declining — 45% of Americans are unable to name a single Nazi concentration camp. One psychotherapist writes how it’s critical not to allow Auschwitz and other camps to fade from collective memory. (WBUR)
of young people said they either hadn't heard of or weren't sure if they'd heard of the Holocaust.
“Auschwitz,” the sign near its entrance reads, “was the largest Nazi German concentration camp and death camp.” Between 1940-1945 the Nazis deported at least 1,300,000 people there -- of whom 1,100,000 were Jews. Poles, Roma, Soviet Prisoners of war and other people added over 200,000 more to the ranks. 1,100,000 people died in the camp, about 90 percent of whom were Jews. “The SS murdered the majority of them in the gas chambers.
In truth, there are plenty of genocidal efforts that can hold their own in blood and cruelty: the Atlantic passage of the American slave trade, the obliteration of Native Americans, the millions in the Congo massacred for the Belgium rubber trade, Stalin’s gulags, the Communist Chinese starving of their own peasants, the murders of Pol Pot, Rwanda … and on and on.
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