Published: 28 January 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
One in 20 Britons does not believe Holocaust took place, poll finds (Guardian)
One in 20 British adults does not believe the Holocaust happened, and 8% say that the scale of the genocide has been exaggerated, according to a poll marking Holocaust Memorial Day. Almost half of those questioned said they did not know how many Jews were murdered in Nazi death camps, and one in five grossly underestimated the number, saying that fewer than two million were killed. At least six million Jews died.
The poll, commissioned by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity established and funded by the UK government, found that one in three people knew little or nothing about the Holocaust, and an average of 5% said they had never heard of it.
In France, 20% of those aged 18-34 said they had never heard of the Holocaust; in Austria, the figure was 12%. A survey in the US last year found that 9% of millennials said they had not heard, or did not think they had heard, of the Holocaust.
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Holocaust museum stokes controversy among Hungary's Jews (i24News)
Hungarian Jews find themselves divided in a bitter dispute over the long-delayed opening of a new Holocaust museum in Budapest. The "House of Fates" complex, located on the run-down fringe of the city centre, is fronted by two 15-metre high towers of stacked cattle wagons connected by a giant, floodlit metal bridge in the shape of the Jewish Star of David.
The A$36 million revamp of the sprawling site, a former railway station where Jews were deported to Nazi German death camps, was largely finished by 2015. But it has remained shuttered ever since, amid wrangles over its concept, suspicions from many Jews of official attempts to whitewash history, and political connections in its development.
World Para Swimming Championships: Malaysia stripped of hosting 2019 event over refusal to let Israelis compete (BBC)
Photo: Man cleaning one of 388 Holocaust street plaques in Salzburg, Austria (BBC)
