This book is a research project of The Vidal Sassoon
International Center for the Study of Antisemitism of The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.. Copyright 1993 by The Vidal Sassoon
International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. All rights reserved. To the victims and
the survivors of the Holocaust and to those who preserve and
tell their story "Remember the days of yore Learn the lessons of
the generation that came before you." In April 1993, in
conjunction with the opening of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, the Roper Organization conducted a poll to
determine the extent of Americans' knowledge of the Holocaust.
Neither the Roper Organization nor the American Jewish
Committee, which sponsored the poll, expected any startling
results. But they were surprised by the response to one of the
questions. When asked "Do you think it possible or impossible
that the Holocaust did not happen?" 22 percent of American
adults and 20 percent of American high school studen