Published 2010-07-01
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The First World War struck the north-eastern part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Halič and Bukovina, where the great majority of the population consisted of
Jews. The battles on the eastern front at the beginning of the war forced the largest wave of refugees inwards into the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in two directions, along the main railway lines running southwest through
Hungary to Vienna and northwest via Přemyšl and Kraków into Moravia, Bohemia, and Austria. …”
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