Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born to a jewish family in austria-hungary/czechoslovakia”. Today it says “born to a jewish family in austria-hungary”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Vera Ducas (1912 – 29 March 1948) was born to a Jewish family in Austria-Hungary . She fled the 1939 Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia with her husband and child. They lived in Turkey for several years before arriving in Palestine . She didn't speak Hebrew and was unable to find work and is alleged to have become an informer for the British CID . She was kidnapped from one of the main cafes of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter and her body found on a patch of waste ground, shot through the head. It was reported that the Stern Gang had announced that they had killed her, accusing her of spying for the British.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Vera Ducas (1912–29 March 1948) was born to a Jewish family in Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia . She fled the 1939 Nazi invasion with her husband and child. They lived in Turkey for several years before arriving in Palestine . She didn't speak Hebrew and was unable to find work and is alleged to have become an informer for the British CID . She was kidnapped from one of the main cafes of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter and her body found on a patch of waste ground, shot through the head. It was reported that the Stern Gang had announced that they had killed her, accusing her of spying for the British.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 643762018.
The opening as it stood in 2020
Vera Ducas (1912 – 29 March 1948) was born to a Jewish family in Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia . She fled the 1939 Nazi invasion with her husband and child. They lived in Turkey for several years before arriving in Palestine . She didn't speak Hebrew and was unable to find work and is alleged to have become an informer for the British CID . She was kidnapped from one of the main cafes of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter and her body found on a patch of waste ground, shot through the head. It was reported that the Stern Gang had announced that they had killed her, accusing her of spying for the British.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 922748522.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born to a jewish family in austria-hungary/czechoslovakia”. Today it says “born to a jewish family in austria-hungary”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
born to a jewish family in austria-hungary/czechoslovakia
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born to a jewish family in austria-hungary
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