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Survey: Young Americans lack basic knowledge about the Holocaust

A disturbing new survey finds a lack of basic knowledge about the Holocaust among young Americans. Almost half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 39 couldn't name a single concentration camp or ghetto, and nearly two-thirds did not know that six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis. Gideon Taylor, the president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, joined CBSN with more.
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