My second hot take of the day

[sabotabby]

Apparently 40% of Millennials don't know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust but I'd wager 90% of Boomers don't know that the death toll in the Holocaust was actually 12.5 million.

Comments

[lapinlunaire]

To be fair, I think it's horrible if it's not being taught about enough in schools

Though I'd like to know more about the survey demographics.

[ebourland]

I'm always a little freaked out by the rapidity with which history is revised, or just forgotten. It is what happens when we stop telling these stories. =(

[franklanguage]

This is the first I've heard this statistic, and the news doesn't surprise me at all.

From the time I heard of the Holocaust—when I was 11 I saw Night and Fog—I never had any doubt it had happened, and I was born at the tail end of the Baby Boom.