*By: Hayley Bronner Since September 1, 2020, Austrian survivors of Nazi persecution and their descendants have been able to gain Austrian citizenship, allowing Austria to join a handful of other European countries in inviting back the Jewish communities that they once mistreated. Austria was once home to thriving Jewish communities, but now only contains a fraction of its former Jewish population. In January of 1938, two months before Nazi Germany invaded Austria,[1] there we