The bill was introduced in 2018 but failed to pass before Congress went to recess.
Last April, a survey by the Claims Conference, the non-profit organisation which works to secure compensation for Holocaust survivors, discovered that 41 percent of Americans — and two-thirds of millennials — did not know what Auschwitz was.
22 per cent of young adults said they had not heard or were not sure if they had heard of the Holocaust, while a share approaching half — 41 per cent — believes less than two million Jews were killed in the death camps.
The true figure is six million.
Just eight American states currently require Holocaust education to be part of school curriculums, with another 13 states recommending it.
“The rise of antisemitism in our country is extremely disturbing and I am terrified of the fact that people have walked through the district I am privileged to represent and have been beaten up and hurt because they are Jewish," Congresswoman Maloney said.
"We need to take proactive steps to combat this hatred. We must begin educating people, especially our young people, about the horrors of the Holocaust and how hate, evil, intolerance and ignorance can lead to mass murder."
