Writer Paul Schlicta last month called the Twentieth Century “The Age of Holocausts.”
He wrote in American Thinker on Jan. 23:
“By war, pogroms, and holocausts, we have managed to kill an estimated 100 million human beings —Armenians, Jews, Poles, Gypsies, dissident Ukrainians and Chinese, and many others —in scientific and systematic ways. This is certainly a record; far more than all the other centuries combined.”
An estimated 20 million Russian Slavs died between 1917 and 1940 in the communist Soviet Union. And three million perished in Cambodia under the brutal totalitarian rule of communist Pol Pot.
The Irish Holocaust remembers the death of seven million Irish during the so-called potato famine. While the Irish starved, Britain was shipping food out of Ireland during the famine, according to the PBS documentary “Out of Ireland.”
Surprisingly, nine million Germans died in post-war internment camps, according to Jewish writer John Sacks in his book “An Eye for Eye.” Sacks spent seven years researching his book in Poland and Germany. He discovered that U. S. officials blocked American Amish from shipping humanitarian food to Germany following the war.
A reviewer for CBS network said Sacks’ book belongs on every bookshelf. But copies are hard to come by after 40,000 copies were destroyed in a censorship drive.
One of these historic holocausts will be reviewed this weekend in Las Animas.
The Las Animas/Bent County Public Library will give a presentation on Saturday, Jan. 31, from 2 to 4 p.m. titled “The Holocaust, Lest We Forget” by local Jewish holocaust historian George Eidinger.
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Writer Paul Schlicta last month called the Twentieth Century “The Age of Holocausts.”
He wrote in American Thinker on Jan. 23:
“By war, pogroms, and holocausts, we have managed to kill an estimated 100 million human beings —Armenians, Jews, Poles, Gypsies, dissident Ukrainians and Chinese, and many others —in scientific and systematic ways. This is certainly a record; far more than all the other centuries combined.”
An estimated 20 million Russian Slavs died between 1917 and 1940 in the communist Soviet Union. And three million perished in Cambodia under the brutal totalitarian rule of communist Pol Pot.
The Irish Holocaust remembers the death of seven million Irish during the so-called potato famine. While the Irish starved, Britain was shipping food out of Ireland during the famine, according to the PBS documentary “Out of Ireland.”
Surprisingly, nine million Germans died in post-war internment camps, according to Jewish writer John Sacks in his book “An Eye for Eye.” Sacks spent seven years researching his book in Poland and Germany. He discovered that U. S. officials blocked American Amish from shipping humanitarian food to Germany following the war.
A reviewer for CBS network said Sacks’ book belongs on every bookshelf. But copies are hard to come by after 40,000 copies were destroyed in a censorship drive.
One of these historic holocausts will be reviewed this weekend in Las Animas.
The Las Animas/Bent County Public Library will give a presentation on Saturday, Jan. 31, from 2 to 4 p.m. titled “The Holocaust, Lest We Forget” by local Jewish holocaust historian George Eidinger.
