This article was originally published on The Conversation.
Whenever there s an analysis or discussion about how much people know about the Holocaust, the focus is often on what they don t know.
For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and older found that 11% of U.S. adults and 22% of millennials had not heard of – or were not sure if they had heard of the Holocaust.
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Almost half of U.S. adults 45% and millennials 49% could not name one concentration camp or ghetto that was established in Europe during the Holocaust, the survey found.
The survey also showed how there s an overwhelming lack of personal connections to the Holocaust. Most Americans 80% had never visited a Holocaust museum and two-thirds 66% did not know, or know of, a Holocaust survivor. A significant majority of American adults believed that fewer people care about the Holocaust today than before.
Scarsdale Knitting Enthusiast Discovers Little Red Dress Knit in the Shanghai Ghetto During the Holocaust
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For years, Greenacres resident and knitter Tanya Singer has been fascinated by the significance of handknit items during the Holocaust, and how they helped women to resist, remember, and renew their lives after the atrocities of World War II.
Her research has uncovered a series of impactful items – including a little red dress knit in the Shanghai Ghetto during the Holocaust. Timed to coincide with the 78th anniversary of the Japanese seizing control of the Shanghai Ghetto in February 1943, Singer is now sharing the story of the dress through her passion project Knitting Hope, which launches online today.
Local museum showcases personal artifacts from Holocaust survivors in ‘Stories of Survival’
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HOUSTON – Holocaust Museum Houston presents “Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory
,” a new exhibition showcasing more than 60 personal items brought to America by survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. The showcase is available to view at 5401 Caroline Street through April 18.
“Stories of Survival” explores “the relationship between objects, their meaning to the original owner and subsequent significance, each artifact is dramatically paired with oversized photographs by renowned documentarian Jim Lommasson with handwritten responses by Survivors or their family members,” the museum announced in a press release.
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The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center (HHC) has announced the opening of a new, permanent exhibit that utilizes artificial-intelligence technology to facilitate âvirtual conversationsâ with Holocaust survivors.Â
Using specialized recording and display technologies and next-generation natural language processing, Dimensions in Testimony allows visitors to ask two-dimensional displays of Holocaust survivors questions and receive responses in real time.Â
Dimensions in Testimony is on exhibit in only seven other museums in the world. Opening to the public on Friday, Feb. 5, the exhibit experience â sponsored by the Harold C. Schott Foundation â is included as part of general admission to the HHCâs museum at Union Terminal.Â