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Holocaust Museum Survey
Is Encouraging, To A Point

In the first-ever report card on Ameri-
can knowledge about the Holocaust,
respondents indicated that they knew
more about the destruction of Euro-
pean Jewry than many experts
believed.
More importantly, a solid majority
said they see Holocaust education as
vitally important.
Those were among the findings of a
major survey commissioned by the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,
which celebrated its fifth anniversary
this week with lectures in Washington
and around the country and a black-
tie dinner.
In the survey of a national cross-
section of Jews and non-Jews conduct-
ed by Peter D. Hart Research Associ-
ates, 81 percent of respondents said
that the Holocaust remains "very
important" or "extremely important"
as an instrument for teaching the
lessons of history.

Holocaust
education is still
relevant.

In fact, respondents rated the Holo-
caust as second only to the American
Revolution as a topic for historical
education, a rating that surprised
museum officials.
The poll suggested that Americans
have major gaps in their knowledge of
the Holocaust, but that a surprising
number want to learn more.
Some 33 percent did not know that
Gypsies and others were also persecut-
ed by the Nazis and 36 percent indi-
cated a belief that mass killings
occurred only in Germany.
More troubling, 78 percent
answered that Hitler and the Nazis, -
not the "German government," were
responsible for the Holocaust. And 71
percent indicated that the United
States granted refuge "to all European
Jews who asked
"These numbers tell us that knowl-
edge is a mile wide but a millimeter
deep," said Deborah Lipstadt, a pro-
fessor at Emory University in Atlanta,
a leading Holocaust scholar and a
member of the museum's board. "It
tells us that while many people have
been exposed to the general lessons of
the Holocaust, they know very little in

the way of specifics."
That general, impressionistic
knowledge, she said, "can lead to seri-
ous misconceptions about the Holo-
caust."
A majority agreed that they didn't
know enough about the Holocaust;
African-Americans and Hispanics
expressed that concern more than oth-
ers. More members of minority groups
also expressed a desire to come to the
museum in Washington.
The survey suggested that Holo-
caust education in the schools contin-
ues to spread. Only 48 percent of
respondents overall indicated that they
had studied the Holocaust in school
— but the figure rose to 75 percent
for those under 34.
But Lipstadt and other museum
officials said that education at the
post-secondary level continues to be
thin, which contributes to the shal-
lowness of knowledge about the events
of World War II.
Respondents resoundingly rejected
the suggestion that the Holocaust "is
not very relevant today and it's finally
time to stop discussing it and put it
behind us."
And the data showed that 77 per-
cent of Americans have heard of the
museum, which ranks it near the top
of a list of leading museums in the
country.
"Those numbers are staggering,"
said Miles Lerman, chair of the Holo-
caust Memorial Council. "The recog-
nition of the museum as a leading
institution and the feeling that the
lessons of the Holocaust must be
taught for generations to come as a
moral compass for mankind are very
encouraging to us."

Egypt Gets Backing
From Familiar Name

Egypt will accept a likely reduction in
its foreign aid, but the Cairo govern-
ment won't exactly be gleeful about
the "voluntary" cut.
That was one of the messages con-
veyed by Economy Minister Yousef
Boutros-Ghali, a nephew of former
U.N. Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali. The personable Egypt-
ian official, after a round of meetings
with administration and congressional
officials, said that his country would
accept an aid cut to help fund other
U.S. Mideast aid priorities "if we have
to." He also said that his nation's
expanding economy is now better able
to absorb aid cuts than it was a few
years ago.

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