Several students are planting a “daffodil memorial garden” to pay tribute to the children who were murdered during the Holocaust.
Sandalwood High School teacher Patrick Nolan said days like Thursday, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, are important. It marks the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland in 1945.
According to a first-of-its-kind study done in 2020, 63% of Americans don’t know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and another 36% believe it was fewer than 2 million. Florida had one of the lowest Holocaust knowledge scores. More than half of Americans believe something like the Holocaust could happen again.
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