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This Polish Jewish woman, about 20 years old, died in Auschwitz.
25 October 1923 | A Polish Jewish woman, Lina Blitz, was born in Nowy Sącz. During the war, she lived in Antwerp.
In 1942, she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz
Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_ko…
Podcast: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
ALT Black and white photograph of a woman with short, wavy hair wearing a light-colored blouse with a dark collar, posing against a brick background.
Crikey, a whole Pinker thread with my posts over the years about this egregious journa!
Over the years Jerry Coyne has documented the deterioration of the magazine, such as here: whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/…
Jerry Coyne retweeted
Scientists & science journalists decry the public's rejection of science, but are oblivious to the major cause: the perception, sometimes correct, that scientists are just another political faction. Among the guiltiest perpetrators are the recent editors of Scientific American, who turned this once-beloved treasure into a left-wing propaganda rag. This absolutely does not justify the Trump administration's unconstitutional meddling, but the new owners are right to restore it to its mission of explaining science to Americans. The Nation reports on The Fall of “Scientific American” thenation.com/article/societ…
I love this woman: "I bought loads of Israeli goods. . .thanks for inspiring me!"
This is political Islamism, and Bagayoko is a hero to French youth for promoting it. His refusal to vote to ban female genital mutilation (while banning alcohol) is especially telling.
FRANCE: Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of Saint-Denis, has officially banned alcohol sales in the Muslim-majority Paris suburb.
This is the same mayor who supported ‘students’ setting schools on fire in the Islamic riots, and who recently refused to vote on a motion opposing female genital mutilation.
Alcohol prohibited, female genital mutilation encouraged, Palestinian and Islamic flags on display. What’s happening is unprecedented.
Europe is changing, and it is changing fast.
Bill Maher's latest bit on "The Moocher Nation" discusses the affinity of young French and Americans for socialism.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/…
youtube.com/watch?v=3gNREfz1…
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/…
These three Italian Jewish siblings, Mario, Mara Cesira, and Sandro Sonnino, were gassed to death as soon as they arrived in Auschwitz.
23 October 1943 | A transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome arrived at Auschwitz. After the selection 149 men & 47 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 839 people were murdered in gas chambers.
Mario, Mara Cesira & Sandro Sonnino among them.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJ…
ALT Studio photograph of three children - from smallest, to largest: a boy, a girl and a boy. They are standing on a fur rug. All have their legs exposed. Some are holding toys in their hands.
I've had this view several times and there's none better from a plane. I believe that's Everest to the extreme right, and I've also seen it from its base (Kala Pattar).
Occasionally John McWhorter hews to the "woke" line, as he does in this week's column favoring land acknowledgments. But he leaves out the counterarguments, which are weighty.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/…
ll the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili is again on Andrzej's case:
Hili: How many times a day are you wrong?
Andrzej: Seven.
Hili: How do you know?
Me: I’m guessing.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/…
A Dutch Jewish girl and her young brother were both gassed as soon as they arrived in Auschwitz. The girl was two years old and would be 87 today had she lived.
23 October 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Frouwke Swart, was born in Amsterdam.
In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and, after selection, murdered in a gas chamber. His younger brother, Levie was killed with her.
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A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
ALT A young girl and her baby brother are on a bed. He is lying, she is sitting behind me. They are both looking in the camera. Their names: Frouwke and Levie Swart, are writtien in the photo.
This is heartbreaking, showing a protestor blinded by the Iranian police.
Just before stepping onto the stage, Farideh asked me a simple question: “Should I leave my hair down, or tie it back?”
I said let it go.. but my heart broke. She can no longer see her own reflection in the mirror. She still wants to look beautiful, to stand tall, and to be seen.
Farideh was blinded in both her eyes by the Islamic Republic during the uprising in 2022, in Sanandaj.
She’s a hero and that is why I invited her to join our delegation in Poland while I receive an award.
With Farideh joining us, our delegation now carries three women blinded under Islamic regimes. Fahimeh is from Afghanistan. Her husband blinded her, just for women’s rights activities. And Kosar was only 22 years old when she took to the street after the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini in the hand of morality Police, shouting for freedom. The Islamic Republic shot her in the face and took one of her eyes.
Yesterday we visited Auschwitz. I walked where millions of innocent people were murdered. We could not hold back our tears. And you know what broke my heart even more? The dictators and oppressors who commit crimes against humanity are the same ones who deny the Holocaust in our country.
The Islamic Republic denies the Holocaust, they even hold cartoon contests mocking it, while they are committing their own crimes against our people in the streets of Iran.
This is what evil does. It denies the crimes of others while committing its own. That is why we must never be silent. We must speak, we must document, we must bear witness, so the world cannot say we did not know.
And at the end, I want to thank Poland for opening your doors to these brave women, for standing with us, for giving us this platform so the voices of the blinded women of Iran and Afghanistan can be heard. Poland knows the price of freedom, and that is why freedom echoes here.
My dream is to take these bra women to university campuses in Europe in America to tell the truth what it means living under Islamic Stats.
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