Never Again! By Hank Silverberg “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it" -- George Santayana It is a startling figure. Twenty-two percent of millennials, and 11 percent of all American adults aren’t sure they know anything about the Holocaust which killed nearly 17 million people in the 1930’s and 1940’s. The figures come from a study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day this past week by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany. www.claimscon.org Two thirds of the millennials asked also could not identify what Auschwitz was. And of those who did know something about the mass executions by the Nazis and their collaborators, 58 percent believed something like it could happen again. (The entrance to Auschwitz) The exact number of people wh
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