Plan to fund Holocaust teaching for all US schools

A BIPARTISAN bill introduced to Congress hopes to legislate for Holocaust education in schools across America.

The proposal comes after a survey last year found most young Americans head never heard of Auschwitz.

The Never Again Education Act introduced by two New York congresswomen — Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat, and the Republican Elise Stefanik — would establish a $2 million (£1.54 million) annual grant for education programmes and “to conduct periodic regional workshops, in partnership with Holocaust education centres.”

Last April, a survey by the Claims Conference found 41 per cent of millienials believed less than two million Jews were killed in the death camps. The true figure is six million.