Of the 140,000 Jews who lived in the Netherlands before World War II, 102,000 were killed during the Holocaust, according to the U.S. State DepartmentThough most Dutch respondents – 89% – were familiar with Anne Frank, 32% of millennials and 27% of all adults surveyed did not know she died in a concentration camp. Anne Frank was a German Jewish girl whose family hid in an attic of her father's Amsterdam business office until they were betrayed to the Nazis and sent to a series of camps. Anne and her sister Margot died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of typhus in 1945 just months before the camp was liberated near the end of the war in Europe.
Netherlands joins 'disturbing' trend of decline in Holocaust knowledge, new survey finds
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