Holocaust education can foster hateful ignorance

It's more important to teach about Judaism and the Jewish people

Proposed Holocaust memorial, Victoria Tower Gardens, London

A recent survey of Americans aged 18-39 found that almost two-thirds of them didn’t know that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, while in New York nearly 20 per cent believed that Jews actually caused it.

These are shocking results. Ignorance plays a large part in this historical am…