A survey shows 25% of adult Australians don't know the Holocaust ever took place. Other than in Victorian schools the history of the Holocaust is not taught to our children.

According to the World Zionist Organization more than 10 anti-Semitic incidents occurred each day in the World last year. A report from the same organization shows Australia seen an increase in incidents of anti-Semitism last year compared to previous years. This has been a worrying trend in Australia and elsewhere over a number of years.

January 27th marked international day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. The UN General Assembly last week adopted an Israeli-German non binding resolution calling for member States to fight against Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.

In my view Australia should take the lead and teach our school children about these events and the futility of war, and at the same time promote understanding and Pacifism in our young.

N,B. The Holocaust saw the genocide of 6 million European Jews and others between 1939 and 1945 by the Nazi's and their supporters.

Next month Australia will be sending a team of athletes to a propaganda event hosted by another nation currently involved in a multi-million person genocide.

A genocide about which the world is turning a blind-eye.

" Australia should take the lead and teach our school children about these events and the futility of war"

Would it be crass to point out that war was the only thing that bought the Holocaust to an end? The Nazis would have completed the eradication of all European Jews were it not for the arrival of the allies in Poland/Germany.

So perhaps war isn't always futile.

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While knowledge of the Holocaust is atrocious, I'd venture that knowledge of an even worse crime against humanity - the Holodomor- is even worse.

http://holodomorct.org/

Australi must place the Koran on a banned books list as it directly incited hatred and violence against Jews - hence ISIS and IRAN.

Dear Josephus,

Christianity has promoted far more hostility against Lews than Islam. The Holocaust was carried out by a Christian country which had a Protestant majority and a Concordant with the Vatican. The Nazis didn't invent Jew hatred. It is been a prominent trend in Christianity. The Nazis exploited a feeling that already existed. They could print Martin Luther's diatribes against Jews in their papers.

One could make a good case for banning the New Testament if your concern is really against promoting hostility against Jews.

The reality is religions contain both hatred and love. One can emphasise what one chooses to emphasise.

It is important to realise many Jews fled to Christian England duringthe Holocaust. WHY? What middle East nations sided with the Nazi's at the time - what was their religion? Who is behind the current hatred and anialation now?