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Nearly half of young Americans can’t name a single Holocaust concentration or death camp (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Sobibor were the ones I was taught about.

Then again, I was in high school from '78 to '82 so that history was a lot more close and relevant. I actually knew kids whose parents had survived the camps.

Shit was hella real.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I was taught about all of these about twenty years after you, except for Sobibor. We did focus mostly on Auschwitz and Dachau. We learned about Auschwitz every year I was in elementary and middle school beginning in first or second grade. We still had survivors speaking at schools into the late '90s.

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