The Snyder retail family refused to play by Austin’s anti-Jewish social rules

Even before Bernard Snyder and late his brother, Chester Snyder, returned from active duty during World War II, they vowed to alter the city that had been their home since 1933.”Before the war, Austin was not a very pleasant place,” Snyder, 97, recalls. „There was a lot of antisemitism. We felt it. You couldn’t be in private clubs. Read more »