More than 1 in 20 young people have never heard of the Holocaust, poll of seven European countries reveals
More than 1 in 20 young people in seven European countries have never heard of the Holocaust, a poll has found.
According to the ComRes poll, 7.32% of 18-34-year-olds have never heard of the Holocaust.
The research by ComRes for CNN interviewed more than 7,000 in Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland and Sweden on their attitudes towards Jews in an effort to gain insight into anti-Semitism across Europe.
According to CNN, lack of knowledge about the Holocaust is particularly striking among young people in France, with one in five 18-34-year-olds there saying they hadn’t heard of it, while in Austria 12% of young people said they had never heard of it.
More broadly speaking, the poll found that a third of Europeans said they knew just a little or nothing at all about the mass murder of six million Jews during the Nazi regime.
The poll also found that three in ten (28%) adults say Jewish people have too much influence in finance and business across the world, compared with other people, while one in five (20%) say Jewish people have too much influence in media across the world compared to other people.
Three in ten (31%) adults think Jewish people use the Holocaust to advance their position or to achieve certain goals, the poll found.
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More than two in five (44%) agree anti-Semitism is a growing problem in their country today with two in five (40%) adults agreeing that Jewish people are at risk of racist violence in their country.
It also found that more than half (56%) of adults say they are not aware of ever having socialised with a Jewish person.
