"April 19, 1943 was ... the first day of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising when entrapped Polish Jews, mostly young people, began an armed guerilla-style urban battle with crude weapons against German General Jürgen Stroop and his elite SS troops" RNS
"Millennials were also misinformed. Over forty percent believed that only two million Jews were killed, rather than over 6 million." WRN
I was born in 1981 and the last war on American soil was World War II, which ended in 1945. If you do not count the wars since then in which America has been involved overseas, my lifetime has been war-free. Though both my grandfathers served in the military, neither my father nor I have served in any capacity. Wars and small battles, as real as they are, have been the stuff of TV for me. I have read about them in the paper, heard about them on the radio and I can distinctly remember watching live footage of Desert Storm.
Why Study Church History? Getting Beyond American-Evangelical Amnesia
(11 benefits of studying church history)
