Nearly a quarter of Dutch people born after 1980 believe the Holocaust was a myth or that the number of its victims was greatly exaggerated, a survey published on Wednesday showed.
, a nonprofit organisation that works to secure material compensation for Holocaust survivors. The others were Austria, Canada, France, Britain and the United States.
This figure rose to 23% for those born after 1980, according to the survey, compared to 15% in the United States and Britain. Gideon Taylor, Claims Conference President, said in a statement that the findings were part of a growing trend. The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe.
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