czech americans

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Czechoslovakians; factors encouraging their emigration; and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl.

Discusses the origins, customs and historical background of Czechs and Slovaks in the United States and the problems they faced as immigrants.

Joe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue his family from Hitler's evil plans.

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Czechoslovakians; factors encouraging their emigration; and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.

A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a simple Bohemian girl.

Even though Great-grandma speaks very little English and Baru?ka does not speak Czech, they enjoy a very special afternoon together while baking and looking at old photographs.

Artist S?s Peter describes what it was like growing up in a Communist country and discusses how Western culture influenced his life.