A newly released survey that shows a significant deficit in knowledge about the Holocaust among American young adults produced flashy national headlines. “4 in 10 millennials don’t know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust,” said CBS News. “Two-thirds of millennials could not identify … what Auschwitz was.” But a closer look at the data…
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