Opinion The arrival of Jewish refugee children in London, Feb. 1939. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – Although memory begins around the age of two and a half, it lasts only about two months in adults, where non-emotional events and news stories are concerned. According to some studies, attention spans have gone down since the year 2000 from 12 seconds to eight, thanks largely to social media. In other words, human beings now have a lower attention span than goldfish. This isn’t a good starting point for reeducating Americans about the Holocaust, which has been the focus of ignorant celebrities of...