As the population of Holocaust survivors diminishes each year, we should be deeply concerned with the ignorance of many Americans about the Holocaust.
The 39th annual commemoration of the Holocaust is held at the Governor’s Reception Room at the state Capitol. April 18, 2023. Dan Gleiter | [email protected] HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, was honored around the world, including here in Harrisburg recently. Each year it is the day that Jewish communities mourn the loss of six million of our people at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators.
While ignorance of the Holocaust is troubling enough, the survey also found that more than one in 10 believe that Jews caused the Holocaust. It is no wonder that the annual audit by the Anti-Defamation League found that there were 3,697 incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in the United States in 2022. This is a 36% increase from the 2,717 incidents tabulated in 2021 and the highest number on record since the ADL began tracking antisemitic actions in 1979.
“Antisemitism on Social Media” was a book published by a group of scholars in 2022, examining how social media platforms may be fueling this rise in the United States and around the world. In her chapter, Cassie Miller of the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that, “Social media platforms, unwittingly or not, have facilitated antisemitism, and are, therefore, implicated in the violence that emanates from it.
We all know of the incredible possibilities that social media platforms, including Tik Tok, present to us all. To teach Holocaust education to the younger generation, the noted mental health therapist, Tova Friedman, has garnered 75 million views on short snippets recorded by her grandson, where she recalls her life under Nazi occupation and how she survived the Auschwitz death camp at the age of six.
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