The Jewish Community of Bosnia Herzegovina group acquired a ... Ashkenazi Jews followed suit when the area fell under Austro-Hungarian rule in the 1870s. The Holocaust, which in western ...
One of these soon-to-be-gobbled regions was the Austro-Hungarian empire, which had recently laid claim to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Hemon’s great-grandfather from his father’s side settled in Sarajevo from Ukraine during the brief period when both Bosnia and western Ukraine were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.