1993 Roper Poll

On April 19, 1993, the American Jewish Committee released the latest survey on Americans' knowledge of the Holocaust. The poll was taken by the Roper organization which interviewed 993 adults and 506 high school students.

• More than 1 in 5 Americans said it is possible the Holocaust never happened.
  
  
• 65% of adults and 71% of high school students could not recognize the correct number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust.
  
  
• 38% of adults and 51% of high school students could not identify Auschwitz, Dachau, and Treblinka as concentration camps.
  
  
• 22% of adults and 20% of high school students said it seems possible that the Nazi extermination of Jews never happened.