Early Years
Although Hanussen claimed to be a Danish aristocrat, he was in fact a Moravian Jew, born as Hermann Steinschneider. Hanussen's father, Siegfried Steinschneider (1858-1910), was an actor and caretaker of a synagogue who married Antonie Julie Kohn in Vienna, Austria.
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