The territory west of the Oder river stretching from the town of Opava up to Bílá Voda was confined by the Jeseník mountain range of the eastern Sudetes in the south, separating it from Moravia, and the Opava river in the north.
Bachrach-Barée was born in Oderberg in Austrian Silesia to Jewish parents, the miller and merchant Philipp Israel Bachrach (1818-1892) and his wife Helena née Kremser (1837-1921).
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After proclamation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 its National Assembly undertook legislative duties both of the Imperial Council and State Diets (Bohemian, Moravian, Silesian).
He was born on June 26, 1891 in Háj near Opava in Austrian Silesia (today the Czech Republic), of an old non-Catholic nobility family; his parents were Václav Vojtěch Vančura, born 1856 in Čáslav, Evangelical, Director of sugar refinery in Háj and Marie Svobodová, Catholic, born 1863 in Kluky near Čáslav.