STOCKHOLM, August 20, 2008 (AFP) - Swedish teachers lack sufficient knowledge about the Holocaust, with seven out of 10 primary and high school educators answering eight of 11 questions incorrectly, a study by Sweden's Living History Forum showed.

Only two of the 5,081 teachers who responded to the Forum's questionnaire answered all 11 multiple choice questions correctly, and another 14 made one mistake, the report released on Wednesday showed.

'A little more than 70 percent of teachers answered incorrectly to at least eight out of 11 questions,' the study said, noting that 'knowledge levels about the Holocaust among respondents appear to be low.'

Only one in 20 teachers in Sweden knew how many Jewish children in Europe were killed during World War II (the correct answer was 'more than 80 percent'), and almost 40 percent said they thought the Gulag was an extermination camp for Jews.

Ninety-five percent were however able to correctly identify Treblinka as an extermination camp.

A total of 47 percent of the teachers surveyed had been teaching for more than 15 years.

While 98 percent of teachers said they considered instruction on the Holocaust to be an important part of the school curriculum, 40 percent said they themselves had received no instruction on the Holocaust during their own schooling and training.

Just under five percent said they had had 10 or more hours of teaching on the subject.

The Forum said that while the results of the knowledge tests were glum, 'it was pleasing that teachers in general consider it important to teach students about the Holocaust.'

The Living History Forum, which focuses on the Holocaust and raises issues of tolerance, democracy and human rights, was founded by the Swedish government in 2003.

It was created following a campaign in the late 1990s to raise awareness about the genocide in Sweden, which remained neutral throughout World War II.