Recording Voices & Documenting Memories of Czech & Slovak Americans is an oral history project started by the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in 2009. The project captures and preserves the stories of Czechs and Slovaks who left their homeland during the Cold War and settled in Chicago, Cleveland, New York City and Washington DC. As of autumn 2011, the NCSML is recording the stories of immigrants who came to the United States after the fall of communism in 1989 as well.
On the project’s website, you can watch video extracts from interviews, look at photos and other archive materials, and read biographies of Czechs and Slovaks who began a new life in the United States. More about the project.
Full length interviews are available for further research at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library. For more information, contact Rosie Johnston, Oral History Project Coordinator at rjohnston@ncsml.org or Dave Muhlena, Library Director at dmuhlena@ncsml.org.
Now you can search the oral history database using keywords. Follow this link to search interviews by name, place and subject. If you are unfamiliar with a term or a person mentioned by one of our interviewees, then check out our oral history glossary here.
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Eva Derman came to New York City with her family in 1968. She completed a PhD in molecular biology at the city's Columbia University some years later. She remembers fondly one particular aspect of her formative education in Slovakia:
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Recording Voices & Documenting Memories of Czech & Slovak Americans is supported by grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Office of Slovaks Living Abroad and people like you.
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