Hedwig Stavianicek was his Lebensmensch, a word coined by Bernhard which means the most important person in one’s life.

Hedwig Stavianicek was his Lebensmensch, a word coined by Bernhard which means the most important person in one’s life.
When Harrison was seven years old, he was stabbed in the eye by a neighbor girl wielding a broken bottle during a quarrel and was blinded. His father and sister were killed in a car accident when he was twenty-one.