Sen. Lauren Book led the charge on a bill to ensure Florida kids learn about the Holocaust in school.
The proposal earned broad bipartisan support after a Palm Beach County high school principal was terminated after entertaining Holocaust denialism as a valid point of view.
Six months later, a new survey shows Holocaust education may be needed more now than at any time in the post-WWII era.
The survey, commissioned by the Claims Conference, found more than three-fifths of young Americans don’t know that six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust and nearly half of the respondents were unable to name a single concentration camp.
Lauren Book has been pushing for more education about the Holocaust in schools. The lack of knowledge is becoming a problem. Image via Colin Hackley.
As disconcerting as the national results are, Book noted that Florida’s are worse.
Nearly a third of Sunshine State millennials and zoomers believe the Holocaust’s death toll was fewer than 2…
