Jerry Coyne

Jerry Coyne

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Jerry Coyne
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This Dutch Jewish girl was gassed to death as soon as she arrived in Auschwitz. She would have been 88 today had she lived.

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27 October 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Beppy Abrahamson, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- Children at Auschwitz Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

Jerry Coyne
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This Jewish boy was gassed to death as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was five years old, and would be 90 today had he lived.

Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

26 October 1936 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Emanuel de Bruin, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. After the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

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@evolutionistrue.bsky.social

A typical scam by the "Australian Literary Network," inviting me to participate in a book club discussing one of my works. But the aim is to squeeze money out of me. These are quite common these days. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/10/25/a...

whyevolutionistrue.comAnother literary scamThis keeps happening to me and, I suspect, to anyone who’s written a book that’s gotten some notice.  This email that I received last week is about the fifth one of its type I got, all …
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John McWhorter critiques the necessity of having "lived experience" to create valid art: the misleading "progressive" view that authors must be of the same sex or ethnicity of their characters lest the product be "cultural appropriation." That view is nonsense whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/10/25/j...

whyevolutionistrue.comJohn McWhorter goes back to antiwokeThe other day I expressed dismay that NYT writer John McWhorter produced a piece heartily endorsing land acknowledgments (“LA”s). That was out of character for a man who got a lot of at…
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These Dutch siblings were gassed to death as soon as they arrived in Auschwitz, probably along with their mother. The youngest was four years old.

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24 October 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Mirjam Rokach, was born in Rotterdam (left). She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with her elder siblings Issachar and Szejna.

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All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili shows she's been reading Jared Diamond. Hili: Are humans really the third species of chimpanzee? Andrzej: I have no doubts about that. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/10/24/s...

whyevolutionistrue.comSaturday: Hili dialogueWelcome to CaturSaturday, October 24, 2026, shabbos for Jewish cats and Food Day, during which you’re suppose to think about stuff like a healthy diet, starvation in parts of the world, anima…
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This Dutch Jewish boy was gassed soon after his train pulled into Auschwitz. He was seven years old.

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24 October 1936 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Max Slager, was born in Enschede. In September 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

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This Dutch Jewish boy was gassed to death as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was almost seven years old.

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22 October 1935 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Abraham Henselein, was born in Amsterdam. He was murdered in a gas chamber of the #Auschwitz camp after the selection on 7 October 1942. --- A short video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

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Four Dutch Jewish children were gassed together as soon as they arrived in Auschwitz. Betsy, pictured on the left, was seven years old.

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22 October 1935 | Dutch Jewish girl, Betsy da Costa da Fonseca, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber together with her siblings: (from left) Ina, Isaac and Elisabeth. --- The history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

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Yep, this is real. Check the link.

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My son very kindly sent me a link to the Wikipedia page for this gentleman, Preserved Fish. “There were at least ten other Fish family members with the Quaker given name Preserved, whose lineages are often confused.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserv...

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This Dutch Jewish girl and her mother were both gassed to death as soon as they arrived in Auschwitz. The girl, Roza, was three years old, and would have been 88 today had she lived.

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21 October 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Roza Elisabeth, van Coevorden was born in Rotterdam. In August 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz with her mother Mathilda. They were both murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. - Gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

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This French Jewish boy was gassed to death as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was two years old and would have been 87 today had he lived.

Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

20 October 1939 | A French Jewish boy, Albert Klochendler, was born in Paris. In August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- Listen about the development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/tRwZ49q-9e0

Jerry Coyne
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This Jewish girl was gassed to death as soon as she arrived in Auschwitz. She was eight years old.

Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

19 October 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl Else Hahn was born in Rotterdam. In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Jerry Coyne
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This French Jewish girl was gassed to death as soon as she arrived in Auschwitz. She was six years old and would have been 89 today had she lived.

Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

18 October 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Renee Stolowicz, was born in Paris. In October 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Jerry Coyne
@evolutionistrue.bsky.social

This 30-year-old Hungarian Jewish woman died in Auschwitz; she was about 30 years old.

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17 October 1914 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Edit Kolozsvari, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

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This Czech Jewish girl was gassed to death as soon as she arrived in Auschwitz. She was 12 years old.

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15 October 1930 | Czech Jewish girl, Gertrud Gunst, was born in Prague. In March 1939 she emigrated to Norway. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Children at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

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This Polish man survived Auschwitz and wrote a book about resistance to the camp by the inmates.

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14 October 1913 | Pole Józef Garlinski was born in Kyiv. A lawyer. He served in the counterintelligence of the Home Army. In #Auschwitz from May 13, 1943. No. 121421 Transferred to KL Neuengamme. He survived. Author of "Auschwitz Fighting" about the resistance in Auschwitz.

Jerry Coyne
@evolutionistrue.bsky.social

This French Jewish boy was gassed to death as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was one year old, and would be 84 today had he lived.

Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

13 October 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Jean Stolowicz, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 October 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy. He was among 491 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. -- Children at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA