Poll: 1 in 20 Britons don't believe Holocaust
A new poll has found that one in 20 adults in Britain do not believe the Holocaust took place.
The poll of more than 2,000 people released Sunday also found that nearly two-thirds of those polled either did not know how many Jews had been murdered in World War II or greatly underestimated the number killed during the Holocaust.
The survey was carried out by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman called the results worrisome.
"The Holocaust threatened the fabric of civilization and has implications for us all," Marks-Woldman says. "Such widespread ignorance and even denial is shocking."
