Cimorene

Well... I think the personal connection to the Holocaust probably did increase my awareness of it? I don't mean to imply that this would be true of all Jews or that it reflects negatively on you that it's not true of you. But I think it was the personal connection, as tinged as it was with horror, which prompted me to curiosity. It's also why I haven't watched about half of XMFC, because after a certain age - I think it was Jane Yolen's Briar Rose in high school - I decided I didn't want to consume fiction that deals with the Holocaust anymore. But definitely I was moved to ask my parents to tell me everything they knew about it, and to read about it in encyclopedias I think, when I first learned about it. Knowing that two of my great-grandparents came over from Poland less than 10 years before the concentration camps started, each with no more than their immediate families, made a big impression on a little kid with like 8 surviving blood relatives on one side of the family (the side that was half Polish jew) contrasted to hundreds of people on the other side.

Of course, personal feelings could just as easily make you want to know less about it, I can well imagine. But I think it's natural to assume that it would be cause for some basic knowledge. I mean, we actually have it in our family Haggadah.