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17 stycznia 2010
British kids think that Auschwitz was a theme park
Times Online
Auschwitz is still largely intact, but it is crumbling. Knowledge of the Holocaust among the young is patchy and getting thinner by the year.

So the question arises: is it better to use resources to prop up the buildings of an evil place in southern Poland — or into education to improve the understanding of the Nazis’ systematic massacre of Jews and other minorities?

A survey found that one in six British 9 to 11-year-olds thought that Auschwitz was a theme park. We have to do better.

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