In light of a growing number of anti-Semitic crimes around the world, the Claims Conference – a US-based organization that negotiates for compensation for Jews and their families who were persecuted by Nazi Germany – has called for more education about the Holocaust. Education is vital in view of the dwindling number of survivors of Nazi crimes and growing Holocaust denial, the organization wrote ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day this Saturday. The day commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in 1944, and pays tribute to the millions of victims of the Nazis. Ac…