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56
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1991
General Support High
For Holocaust Studies
A
new survey has con-
cluded that there is
strong support among
non-Jewish Americans for
Holocaust education. Not.
unexpectedly, the survey
showed that persons under
age 35 have far less knowl-
edge about the Holocaust
than those who are older.
Disturbingly, however, the
survey also uncovered a
widely held —but unfocused
— belief that a similar
tragedy could again befall
world Jewry.
The survey, conducted for
the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Council and the
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith, concluded that
73 percent of the general
American public supports
Holocaust education.
The U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Council is the fed-
eral agency charged with
Holocaust education - and
with overseeing construction
of the privately funded Hobo-
caust Memorial Museum,
scheduled to open in April
1993.
Forty-one percent of those
questioned said Holocaust
studies are "very impor-
tant," while 32 percent said
they were "essential."
Seventy-six percent also
said that it is either essen-
tial or very important that
"all Americans know about
and understand" the Nazi
Holocaust that took the lives
of six million Jews in World
War II.
In response to other ques-
tions, 55 percent rated the
Holocaust as one of history's
most significant events, and
77 percent disagreed with
the statement that "the
Holocaust is something we
hear too much about."
"Hate group" activities in
this country, the resurgence
of anti-Semitism in Eastern
Europe and the Soviet
Union, the continuing Arab-
Israel conflict and the
unification of Germany were
cited by those polled as the
primary reasons for their
support of continued wide-
spread attention to the
lessons of the Holocaust.
Some 885 adults — less
than 3 percent of them Jew-
ish — were polled in the
nationwide telephone survey
conducted by the firm of
Ira Rifkin is an assistant
editor of the Baltimore Jewish
Times.
Yankelovich Clancy
Shulman.
Buried within the study,
was a question that asked:
"In your view, how likely
is it that the Jewish people
could be subjected to another
Holocaust somewhere in the
world in coming years
—very likely, somewhat
likely or not very likely?"
In response, 25 percent
said "somewhat likely," and
17 percent said "very like-
y"
Dennis Klein, who directs
the ADL's Braun Center for
Holocaust Studies, caution-
ed that it was risky to draw
definite conclusions from the
response to the vaguely
worded question.
A question
concerning the
likelihood of
another Holocaust
prompted a
disturbing
response.
"This is certainly some-
thing to think about, I
agree," he said. "But we
placed no emphasis on the
response because it raised
more questions than it an-
swered. I can only say it is
worth further exploration."
Mr. Klein noted that the
survey was conducted in
November, following threats
by Iraq's Saddam Hussein to
attack Israel first in the
event of a Persian Gulf war,
and respondents might have
had this in mind when an-
swering the question.
For Henry M. Meyerhoff,
the Baltimore businessman
and philanthropist who
chairs the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Council, the more
immediate concern ge-
nerated by the survey is the
decided lack of knowledge
about the Holocaust among
younger Americans.
For example, 70 percent of
those polled who were older
than 50 said they knew a
"great deal" or a "fair
amount" about the Holo-
caust. But 50 percent of
those under age 35 said they
know "little" or "nothing"
about the Nazi attempt to
eradicate European Jewry.
"In 20 years, the
eyewitnesses to this im-
mense tragedy — survivors,
liberators and rescuers —
will be gone. A new genera-
tion will be born into a world
that has no witnesses to the