1. For POLAND, give the following information:

1. capital
2. location/the countries that share its borders
3. the religious breakdown of the population
4. the type of government
5. the chief of state (and head of government if different) If monarch or dictator, since what date has he/she ruled? – include name of heir apparent for monarch
6. the population

Find the answers at the CIA World FactBook website. For each country, answers can be found under the “Geography” “People” and “Government” headings.

NOTE: Before answering the following questions, read the info under “Background” and watch the video under “Resources” below.

2. For POLAND:
a) list the who, what, where and when of the news item
b) When was International Holocaust Remembrance Day established?
c) What is the two-fold purpose of this day?
d) Polls in the UK, US and Canada show that a large percentage of young people don’t know what Auschwitz was and don’t know how many Jewish people were murdered by Hitler. Even more concerning is the statistic that five percent of adults in the United Kingdom don't believe the Holocaust happened.

BBC News reports:

A poll by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust found that 5% of British adults do not believe the Holocaust took place and one in 12 believes its scale has been exaggerated, a survey has found.

In the survey, 45% of those polled said they did not know how many people were killed in the Holocaust, while one in five (19%) believed fewer than two million Jews were murdered. The actual figure was six million.

Holocaust survivor Steven Frank, who was one of 93 children to survive the Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia along with his two brothers, said the survey's findings were "terribly worrying.”

His father, who helped hide Jews as part of the Dutch resistance, was arrested in Amsterdam and gassed at Auschwitz, in Nazi-occupied Poland, in January 1943.

Mr Frank, who now lives in Hertfordshire, England said he was "surprised" by the number of people who do not believe the Holocaust took place.

The 83-year-old said: "In my experience, people don't have a solid understanding of what happened during the Holocaust and that's one of the reasons I am so committed to sharing what happened to me.

"At one of my talks, I met someone who said the Holocaust didn't happen. The only way to fight this kind of denial and anti-Semitism is with the truth - I tell people what happened, what I saw and what I experienced."

He added: "Education is so important. If we ignore the past, I fear history will repeat itself."

What do you think is the best way to inform/educate the world about the truth of the atrocities of the Holocaust? Be specific.