Holocaust survivors use social media to fight anti-Semitism
Berlin, GermanyAP Alarmed by a rise in online anti-Semitism during the pandemic, coupled with studies indicating younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, Holocaust survivors are taking to social media to share their experiences of how hate speech paved the way for mass murder. With short video messages recounting their stories, participants in the #ItStartedWithWords campaign […]
Survey: Half of American Jews have experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism
RNS A new survey released on Holocaust Remembrance Day found that more than half of America’s Jews have either experienced or witnessed what they perceived to be an anti-Semitic incident over the past five years. The survey was conducted in January, before the US outbreak of the coronavirus, by the data analytics firm YouGov on behalf of […]
What’s Auschwitz? 2/3 of American millennials don’t know it was a Nazi death camp, survey reports
RNS Most American millennials don’t know what Auschwitz was, a survey finds. Despite the slaughter of nearly a million Jews – as well as hundreds of thousands of Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others – at the World War II Nazi death camp, a survey commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany found […]