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Podcast: VINnews Podcast
Episode: THE DEFINTIVE RAP: A Daughter's Search for her Family's Truth in Pre-Holocaust Austria Discovers That her Great Uncle Treated Hitler's Mother and (young) Adolf Himself
Description: Today’s guest, Meriel Schindler, is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, And The Search for Truth. Café Schindler was built by her uncles Hugo and Erich in the early 1900’s, and was considered the place to be in Innsbruck Austria - Where they served the best pastries and featured the most talented musicians for dance nights. The café, though under a new family ownership, is still operating today. This book, however, is not about a café, but about family history, Nazi plundering of Jewish businesses and property...