OTTAWA — On Monday the world will mark eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi extermination camps where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during the Second World War.
But as world leaders and Auschwitz survivors prepare to gather at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in southern Poland, a new survey suggests a growing number of Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust has been exaggerated.
The number of Canadians between 35 to 44 years old agreeing with that statement increased from five to eight per cent between the February and May surveys, while the number in the 45 to 54 age cohort increased from four to 11 per cent. A year ago, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany published what it called an"unprecedented" demographic study on Holocaust survivors, reporting about 245,000 people who had survived it were still alive. Almost half of those lived in Israel, and more than one-in-six lived in the United States. At that time there were 5,800 survivors living in Canada.The Auschwitz museum has reported it expects about 50 survivors to attend the ceremony Monday.
"But it's also to some extent an honour to be there to represent Canada and to represent the Jewish community." Films and documentaries were the most common primary information source choice across all age brackets, cited by 34 per cent of all respondents. Lyons pointed to a five-year, $5 million fund the government launched in December to help promote Holocaust education.
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