welcome to @louieschool ‘s history class! we’re here to help with your history + subject related questions. please dm us if you need help
Apr 9, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The Story of Anne Frank: A Thread
Anne Frank is the well-known victim of Holocaust during World War II.
Why is Anne Frank so well-known?
Anne Frank is the most-known Jewish victim of the Holocaust due to her book, "The Diary of A Young Girl" which was discovered and published by her father, Otto Frank, after her demise giving details about their life in hiding.
Apr 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This isn't really a fun fact, more a life story I think?
So my great grandfather was a polish soldier in ww2, and he was half Jewish. When my great grandmother got pregnant by him he had too leave due too the war being almost over, and freeing more people. He didn't know she +
Pregnant.
A few months later my grandfather was born and my great grandmother remarried someone else, we didn't know till recently that our family was polish and Jewish.
We also have family in New York! He married someone else and had kids with the woman, so I have cousins +
Apr 8, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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as one of the admins who is jewish i thought i’d tell you a story. my grandmother lily escaped auschwitz. this is the story of that.
so she started off in the warsaw ghetto, and was transported to auschwitz, she never told me the story how she got out out the actual camp but did tell me the story of her trip to england.
Apr 8, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
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Yom HaShoah begins today at sundown (april 7th) and continues until thursday night (april 8th)
this is a day of commemoration and remembrance for the six million Jews and five million others who were murdered in the Holocaust during 1941-1955
Apr 7, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Few Historical Events That Happened on This Day (April 7) - A Thread
1348: The first University in Central Europe, The Prague University was formed by Charles IV in modern-day Prague, Czech Republic.
Apr 6, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
fun facts about the roman empire, a thread 🪡:
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the romans believed that rome was started in 753 BC by the brothers romulus and remus, twin sons of the god of war, mars. the twins were raised by a wolf, and lived to defeat the king of alba longa, who left them in a river to drown as babies.
