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10 Famous People You Never Knew Were Refugees

5. Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud, known as the “Father of Psychoanalysis” was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Příbor in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now part of the Czech Republic. He was the first of their eight children. In 1860, Freud and his family moved to Vienna, where he spent most of his life as part of the city’s rich pre-Nazi Jewish intellectual community. In 1938, Freud was forced to flee to Britain to seek exile from the Nazi invasion. Sadly, his four sisters died in concentration camps.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), In 1885, When He Was Training As A Psychiatrist At General Hospital In Vienna.
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