Reply #15: Belsen will be relatively better known in Britain than America

[muriel_volestrangler]

but I wouldn't count on many more people knowing it than Auschwitz. Those alive at the time will certainly know it (and most of those will know Auschwitz as well, I expect), but that's probably less than a fifth of adults. For the rest of us, it's history, rather than news reports that we heard at the time, and I'd say Auschwitz comes up at least as often, and probably more, as Belsen as an example of a death camp.

Knowing the name of the camps is not the most important thing - knowing what happened in them is. I'd like to know if they asked other questions, like 'what was the Holocaust', or 'what groups died in the camps'.