I read Krista Beighton's report on the doubts being raised on the internet about the holocaust with both sadness and concern (The Argus, January 27).

On the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 58 years ago with only 7,500 survivors, it is tragic and worrying there are still doubts being raised about this atrocity.

With the University of Sussex working hard to ensure lessons learnt about past atrocities are passed on to children, they will realise what past wars have been fought for. Research revealing that children are being led to believe the holocaust never happened is of great concern to me as a parent.

Because holocaust denial is illegal neither in the UK nor the US unless it incites racial hatred, it is very difficult to stop this sort of material being seen by schoolchildren.

I was taught nothing about either world war at school and have always thought this was wrong.

Schoolchildren - and some adults - need to realise our freedoms today have come at a very high price, costing millions their lives across the world.

-Steve Fuller, Rowan Avenue, Hove