Life
She was born in 1893 in Vienna, Austria into a Jewish family. Her father, Ludwig Geiringer, was born in Hungary and her mother, Martha Wertheimer was from Vienna. Her parents had married while her father was working in Vienna as a textile manufacturer.
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