Half of Americans don’t know 6m Jews were killed in Holocaust, survey says
45% gave the correct answer, Pew Research Center survey findsSome people believe ignorance linked to rise in antisemitism
by Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
Jan 22, 2020
2 minutes
Fewer than half of American adults know how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust, according to a survey published ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
Forty-five per cent of those asked by the Pew Research Center about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis
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