Holocaust Awareness Leads People to Be More Compassionate to Religious and Cultural Minorities: Study

White roses left by visitors stand among train tracks prior to a commemoration of the anniversary of the deportation of Berlin's Jews to concentration camps in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 19, 2016. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

A first and largest survey of its kind has found that people who have a higher level of Holocaust awareness were more likely to have warmer feelings towards religious and cultural minority or disadvantaged groups including Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists as well as asylum seekers and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

However, almost a quarter of Australians have little to no knowledge of the genocide, despite being home to one of the highest numbers of Holocaust survivors outside Israel.