By Sapeer Mayron on Stuff…
Education is key to understanding the atrocities of the Holocaust and dismantling anti-Semitic views, the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand says.
Speaking with Stuff after revelations a fifth of surveyed New Zealanders said they knew “virtually nothing” about the Holocaust, deputy chairwoman Miriam Bookman said understanding the fundamentals was critical.
The Survey of Anti-Semitism in New Zealand 2021, released this week, was conducted by Curia Research. It asked 1000 New Zealanders about 18 statements to measure anti-Semitic sentiments.
When it came to the Holocaust, the attempted genocide of Jewish people and other minorities by Nazi Germany, 19 per cent of respondents said they knew “a great deal” about the event while 17 per cent said they knew “virtually nothing”.
Just 42 per cent knew 6 million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust, referred to as the Shoah in Hebrew.
“That 6 million figure, it is front and centre,” Bookman said.
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