The Claims Conference in 2018 released a comprehensive national survey of Holocaust awareness and knowledge among adults in the United States.

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66% of US millennials did not know what Auschwitz was

4 in 10 millennials thought 2 million Jews or fewer were killed during the Holocaust (actual number is over 6 million)

Eight out of ten respondents say it is important to keep teaching about the Holocaust so it does not happen again

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11 million people were killed during the Holocaust (1.1 million children)

6 million of those victims were Jewish

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 Other groups targeted: 

(according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

• Roma (Gypsies)

• People with disabilities

• Slavic peoples (especially Poles and Russians)

• Communists

• Socialists

• Jehovah's Witnesses

• Homosexuals