Exclusive | Survey shows shocking number of Long Islanders believe Jews need to just move on from exaggerated Holocaust

Nearly a third of Long Island residents don’t believe the Holocaust should be required teaching and suggest Jews just “move on” from the “exaggerated” genocide, according to a shocking new survey.The survey of roughly 400 Long Islanders revealed that a disturbing number of Nassau and Suffolk county residents believe Holocaust deaths have been exaggerated, with even more outright opposing the horror be part of required curriculum in schools.“The survey is intended to provide a roadmap for all of us — regardless of faith or ethnicity — because indifference or ignorance of how the Holocaust occurred threatens everyone,” said Steven Krieger, a Long Island-based real-estate developer who helped fund the study conducted by national conservative pollster McLaughlin Associates.The findings — released on the anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp — reveal that roughly 15% of respondents either straight-up believe the Nazi’s genocide was exaggerated to some extent or refused to answer the question.About 30% said they don’t believe that Holocaust education should be required to be taught in public schools and that Jews should collectively “move on.”The survey comes as antisemitism has surged to the highest levels ever recorded nationwide, according to the Anti-Defamation League — a trend that Jewish advocates link in part to the war in Gaza and now Lebanon, claiming a growing number of Americans are conflating the Israeli government’s actions with Jewish people as a whole.“The government of Israel does not represent all Jewish people, but what we are seeing is a conflation of the two where people automatically associate all Jews with the actions of Israel, and I believe that is causing real antisemitism from extremists whose gripe is really with a foreign government,” an activist from Jewish Voices for Peace told The Post after viewing the survey.Gloria Sesso, president of the Long Island Council for Social Stu...