partnership among ADL, USC Shoah Foundation and Yad Vashem, and
the ADL’s Bearing Witness Program, a Holocaust education initiative
specifically geared toward Catholic schools. She also cited the Jewish
Community Relations Council’s work connecting students with survi-
vors through its annual Youth Symposium on the Holocaust programs
and its Survivor Speaker Bureau.

Writing in The Forward, Stephen Smith, executive director chair of
the USC Shoah Foundation, criticized the study for using a narrow defi-
nition of Holocaust knowledge, downplaying the efficacy of Holocaust
education and inciting fear.

“The Claims Conference survey defined ‘knowledge’ of the Holocaust
as follows: a person has ‘definitely heard of the Holocaust’ (78% said
they had), can name at least one concentration camp, death camp and
ghetto (52% could name at least one), and knows that 6 million Jews
were killed in the Holocaust (37% did),” Smith wrote. “These are not
unreasonable things to expect people to know. But it’s also a high bar
to clear in order to say that someone has ‘knowledge’ of the Holocaust.

“The implication of this survey is that people are somewhat anti-Se-
mitic because they do not know facts about the Holocaust, when in fact
they just may not know specific details about history.”
Fisher said this was an important point, and that statistics may not
always tell the whole story.

“I am not involved in statistical results. I want to know what’s going
on in the classroom,” she said. “What are students learning? What
should they be learning? How can we help teachers?” l
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