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Selma Steinmetz
Selma Steinmetz (1 September 1907 - 16 June 1979) was an Austria-Hungary, Austrian :de:Pädagoge, educator and author who emigrated to France after the Austrofascism, cancellation of democracy in Austria. In Vichy France, France she became a French Resistance, resistance activist following Battle of France, the German invasion in 1940. At the end of End of World War II in Europe, 1945 she was able to return to Vienna (where she had spent her student years) and was one of the first researchers to study the histories of victims of Nazism, National Socialism. After 1963 she was an important contributor to the work of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance , Austrian Resistance Archive (''"Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes"''). Biography Selma Steinmetz was born in Vienna, the eldest of her parents' three recorded daughters. Heinrich Chaim Steinmetz (1882-1941/42), her father, worked as a retailer. He had come to the city originally from a village ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War and was dissolved shortly after its defeat in the First World War. Austria-Hungary was ruled by the House of Habsburg and constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy. It was a multinational state and one of Europe's major powers at the time. Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe after the Russian Empire, at and the third-most populous (after Russia and the German Empire). The Empire built up the fourth-largest machine building industry in the world, after the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. Austria-Hungary also became the world's third-largest manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
