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发帖数: 4796 | 1 犹太人唠唠叨叨他们这个所谓大屠杀70多年了。耳朵都磨出茧子了。别的民族经历的屠
杀都不重要，就他们的这个重要。够了！
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Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds
For seven decades, “never forget” has been a rallying cry of the Holocaust
remembrance movement.
But a survey released Thursday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, found that
many adults lack basic knowledge of what happened — and this lack of
knowledge is more pronounced among millennials, whom the survey defined as
people ages 18 to 34.
Thirty-one percent of Americans, and 41 percent of millennials, believe that
two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust; the actual number
is around six million. Forty-one percent of Americans, and 66 percent of
millennials, cannot say what Auschwitz was. And 52 percent of Americans
wrongly think Hitler came to power through force.
“As we get farther away from the actual events, 70-plus years now, it
becomes less forefront of what people are talking about or thinking about or
discussing or learning,” said Matthew Bronfman, a board member of the
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which commissioned the
study. “If we wait another generation before you start trying to take
remedial action, I think we’re really going to be behind the eight ball.”
Despite the gaps in the respondents’ knowledge, the study found an
overwhelming consensus — 93 percent — that all students should learn about
the Holocaust at school. And Holocaust denial remains very rare in the
United States, with 96 percent of respondents saying they believe the
genocide happened.
“The issue is not that people deny the Holocaust; the issue is just that it
’s receding from memory,” said Greg Schneider, the executive vice
president of the Claims Conference, which negotiates restitution for
Holocaust victims and their heirs. “People may not know the details
themselves, but they still think it’s important. That is very heartening.”
The survey, conducted by Schoen Consulting from Feb. 23-27, involved 1,350
American adults interviewed by phone or online, and has a margin of error of
plus or minus three percentage points. Millennials were 31 percent of the
sample, and the results for that group have a margin of error of plus or
minus five percentage points.
The questions were developed by a committee that included officials from the
Claims Conference, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad
Vashem, as well as a Holocaust survivor and a polling expert from George
Washington University. (In a strange footnote, the head of Schoen Consulting
, Doug Schoen, is in the news this week for arranging for President Trump to
give a speech during a 2015 event in Ukraine.)
Worldwide, the estimated number of living Holocaust survivors has fallen to
400,000, according to the Claims Conference, many of them in their 80s and
90s. And Holocaust remembrance advocates and educators, who agree that no
book, film or traditional exhibition can compare to the voice of a survivor,
dread the day when none are left to tell their stories.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington collects comment
cards from many visitors before they leave, and they underscore that “no
educational experience that anyone has coming through here has as much of an
impact as hearing from a survivor directly,” said Kristine Donly, interim
director of the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the museum, who
sat on the board that developed the survey.
And so, across the country and around the world, museums and memorials are
looking for ways to tell the witnesses’ stories once the witnesses are gone.
At the site of the Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs, the Philadelphia
Holocaust Remembrance Foundation has been developing an interactive memorial
plaza, scheduled to open in October. Visitors will use a new app that will,
among other things, feature survivors’ recorded testimonies.
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In one part of the plaza, train tracks that carried prisoners to the
Treblinka death camp will be embedded in the pavement. When visitors step
onto the tracks, the app, using geocaching technology, will pull up videos
of Philadelphia residents “who were on those very trains that led to
Treblinka,” said Eszter Kutas, the remembrance foundation’s acting
director.
And at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, near Chicago,
visitors can speak with one of seven holograms of survivors — a project
also tested at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Drawing on
recorded testimony, the holograms can answer questions in real time.
Visitors to the Illinois museum’s Take a Stand Center first watch a five-
minute film in which a survivor introduces him- or herself. In one, Fritzie
Fritzshall describes being taken to a ghetto at gunpoint during Passover,
and from there to Auschwitz.
“I have so much more to tell you,” she says. “So please ask me questions.”
Then the hologram appears, “so real that our audience typically gasps when
they see it,” said Susan L. Abrams, the museum’s chief executive.
“It really was as effective as hearing from a live survivor, and that
surprised us,” Ms. Abrams said. “When you sit in this theater and the
lights dim, everything else melts away. Our visitors truly believe that they
are having this conversation with a survivor. I don’t think even we
realized just how powerful it would be.”
Follow Maggie Astor on Twitter: @MaggieAstor.
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发帖数: 24887 | 2 那是，别的民族被屠杀，那是历史的无奈嘛。他们是“上帝的子民”，当然就不同了。 | v*********u
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发帖数: 4796 | 4 我路过坚决不去。还有泥哥博物馆也坚决不去
：DC的纪念馆，每年游客量那么大
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: DC的纪念馆，每年游客量那么大
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