18 October 1898: Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer born at Linzerstrasse 87 in the Penzing district of Vienna, Austria. Her father, Franz Paul Blamauer, is a coachman and her mother, Johanna Teuschl Blamauer, a laundress; the family lives in poverty. She was the third child born to the Blamauers; the first, also named Karoline, had died. … Continue reading 1898-1921: Escape from the Slums