Survey: Knowledge about the Holocaust in Brazil

The survey “Knowledge about the Holocaust in Brazil – 2025,” commissioned by the Brazilian Israelite Confederation (CONIB), the São Paulo Holocaust Memorial, the Curitiba Holocaust Museum, and StandWithUs Brazil, and conducted by the ISPO Group, presents its findings.

Set against a global backdrop marked by rising antisemitism, historical disinformation, and the trivialization of violence, the initiative seeks to understand how Brazilian society knows—or does not know—about the Holocaust.

The study aims to map the main sources of information used by the population, while also analyzing factors such as education, income, region, and sociodemographic profile.

A total of 7,762 interviews were conducted, with a margin of error of 4.7% and a confidence interval of 95%.

The survey covered 11 Brazilian metropolitan regions. The predominant profile was 54.2% women; 31.4% young people aged 18 to 29; 51.8% with a high school education; and 54.4% with a family income of up to two minimum wages.

Interviews were conducted in person at high-traffic locations (transport stations, shopping centers), with quotas controlled by sociodemographic criteria.

Although 59.3% of respondents said they had some knowledge of the Holocaust, only 53.2% were able to correctly define it as the systematic extermination of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. Knowledge proved even more fragile when specific aspects of the subject were assessed.

Only 38.5% correctly identified Auschwitz-Birkenau as an extermination camp, while 51.6% said they did not know how to answer.