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As survivors pass on, more Holocaust education could be headed to Arizona classrooms Arizona Rep. Alma Hernandez, D-Tucson, introduced a bill that would require Holocaust education aimed at clarifying misconceptions that today’s students may have about World War II, such as how it started, who the perpetrators were and how many people were killed. (Source: Cronkite News) By Kelly Donohue | March 8, 2021 at 12:42 PM MST - Updated March 8 at 12:42 PM
PHOENIX – Arizona students haven’t been properly taught about the Holocaust in recent years, according to a recent poll conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Among Arizona millennials surveyed in March 2020, 42% could not name a single concentration camp the Nazis built to detain and exterminate Jews and others deemed undesirable.
Rep. Alma Hernandez’s bill, which would require Holocaust be taught at least twice from the seventh to the 12th grade, has Arizonans talking about Holocaust education in grade schools.