Survey: Half Of Americans Don’t Know How Many Jews Died In The Holocaust

Only 53% of Americans over the age of 18 answered correctly that approximately six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, according to an American Jewish Committee public opinion survey released ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday. 

View of the Main Gate of the former Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz II-Brikenau in Brzezinka near Oswiecim on January 22, 2023. When asked how Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, 39% correctly said it was through a democratic political process but 24% chose not sure. JAKOB PORZYCKI/JNS