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The hidden story of a home: Renate Wagner's search for Friederike

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Autorin Renate Wagner mit SBS German Executive Producer Benjamin Kanthak. Credit: SBS German

Renate Wagner grows up in an apartment in Vienna, the family fills the rooms with love and happiness. It was only years later that she discovered that the origin of this apartment was closely linked to the fate of two Jewish women during National Socialism. In her book “Auf der Suche nach Friederike/Looking for Friederike”, she embarks on an intensive search for clues and reconstructs a story that might otherwise have been lost.


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Renate Wagners Buch ist auch auf Englisch ("Looking for Friederike") und Italienisch ("Cercando Friederike") erschienen. Credit: SBS German

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