Austro-Hungarian Empire

  • Simon Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908, in Buczacz, a town then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today in western Ukraine). He was the eldest of four children in a Jewish family. His father was a teacher, and Wiesenthal grew up in an environment that valued education and community involvement. He pursued studies in…

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  • As a young man I was forced to watch the most boring movies about a young empress called Sissi, usually the movies would be on around Christmas time. Not only were they boring, they were also extremely long and it was a trilogy.They were made between 1955 and 1957. The movies were all idyllic and…

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