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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ben Quinn

Third of young adults in UK ‘unable to name Auschwitz or any Nazi death camps’

an entrance gate at Auschwitz-Birkenau with sign that reads, in German, 'work makes one free', and view down pathway with barracks-style buildings to either side.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oświęcim, Poland, was the most well-known of the Nazi concentration camps. Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP

A third of young adults in the UK are unable to name Auschwitz or any of the other concentration camps and ghettoes where the crimes of the Holocaust were committed, according to a study.

Other growing gaps in knowledge – especially among those aged 18-29 – were also identified, as part of a major international survey in countries including the US and UK.

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