NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), released the U.S. Millennial Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey.
The first-ever 50 state survey on Holocaust knowledge tested Millennials and Gen Zs Americans. The test showed most in those age groups lacked basic knowledge of the Holocaust.
A large number of citizens nationally didn’t know basic knowledge about the magnitude of Jews that were affected. Here is a comparison of how Ohioans ranked versus the rest of the U.S.:
The Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has a full breakdown on all the questions asked on their website: http://www.claimscon.org/millennial-study/
| Average of Ohioans | Average Across the U.S. | |
|---|---|---|
| Can’t name a concentration camp or ghetto | 46% | 48% |
| Believe Jews Caused the Holocaust | 12% | 11% |
| Did not know what Auschwitz was | 37% | 56% |
| Believe 2 million or fewer Jews were killed during the Holocaust | 36% | 36% |
| Have seen Holocaust denial or distortion on social media or elsewhere online | 50% | 49% |
The study showed that Wisconsin scored the highest in Holocaust awareness whereas Arkansas scored the lowest among U.S. Millennials and Gen Zs.