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Title
A name given to the resource
Sokol Materials
Subject
The topic of the resource
Czech-American--Cedar Rapids, IA.
Description
An account of the resource
Materials related to Cedar Rapids Sokol and Catholic Sokol of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
NCSML Archive SC 1.32.4
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
c.1919-1991
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
No known restrictions on publication.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
pdf
Language
A language of the resource
cs
en-us
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Cedar Rapids, IA
Iowa City, IA
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Original Format
The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
program
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Zlaté Jubileum [50th Anniversary], Tělocvičné Jednoty Sokol program 1923
Subject
The topic of the resource
Czech-Americans--Cedar Rapids, IA.
Description
An account of the resource
Zlaté Jubileum. Tělocvičné Jednoty Sokol. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 1873-1923.' Program commemorating the 50th anniversary of Cedar Rapids Sokol- Czech and English, 36 pages.
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The nature or genre of the resource
Text
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pdf
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1923
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
NCSML Archive SC 1.32.4
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Cedar Rapids, IA
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Tělocvičná Jednota Sokol [Sokol Association]
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
No known restrictions on publication.
Identifier
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SC1324SokolCR50thProgram1923
Language
A language of the resource
cs
en-us
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Czech language
Iowa
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Title
A name given to the resource
Z.Č.B.J. Dramatic Club "Prach a Broky" photograph (back)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Theater--Cedar Rapids, IA
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of Z.Č.B.J. Dramatic Club performers on stage. Ten performers are in costume on stage around a table. Text on reverse "Prach A Broky."
(back)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
unknown
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NCSML Archives SC1.33.2
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
n.d.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
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Information about rights held in and over the resource
No known restrictions on publication.
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jpg
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A language of the resource
cs
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Still Image
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
SC1332ZCBJDramatikyPhoto1
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Cedar Rapids, IA
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Theater-Czechs in Cedar Rapids
Subject
The topic of the resource
Theater-- Cedar Rapids, IA
Description
An account of the resource
Programs, photographs, and ephemera of various theater groups in the Czech community in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Ochotnické Družstvo
Dramatický odbor Čtenářskeho Spolku (Čtenářsky Spolek) (later known as Prokop Velky č. 46 Č.S.P.S. )
Dorost’ový Klub Mládeže
Matice Školská
Dramatický sbor Katolického Sokola “Ceska Lípa”
Lodge Cedar Rapids No. 262 Western Bohemian Fraternal Association (Z.Č.B.J.)
Dramatický Kroužek Z.Č.B.J.
Ochotníci Sv. Ludmily
Dramatický a Pěvecký Klub Dvořák
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A related resource from which the described resource is derived
NCSML Archives SC. 1.33.2
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An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
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The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
pdf
jpg
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A language of the resource
cs
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The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Still Image
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
NCSML Archives SC1.33.2
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Cedar Rapids, IA
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Tisk C.R. Listů (Tisk Slovana Amerického C.R.)
Service Press Co. Printers & Binders
Allied Printing
Color Printing Co.
Slovan Americký
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1971
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Information about rights held in and over the resource
No known restrictions on publication.
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A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Z.Č.B.J. Dramatic Club "Prach a Broky" photograph
Subject
The topic of the resource
Theater--Cedar Rapids, IA.
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of Z.Č.B.J. Dramatic Club performers on stage. Ten performers are in costume on stage around a table. Text on reverse "Prach A Broky."
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
NCSML Archives SC1.33.2
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Cedar Rapids, IA
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
unknown
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An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
No known restrictions on publication.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
n.d
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The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpg
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
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A language of the resource
cs
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Iowa
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Title
A name given to the resource
Z.Č.B.J. Dramatic Club "Zena Na Skousku" photograph (back)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Theater--Cedar Rapids, IA.
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of Z.Č.B.J. Dramatic Club performers on stage. Twenty two performers in costume are on stage with the scenery in the background. Text on reverse "Zena Na Skousku." (back)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
unknown
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NCSML Archives SC1.33.2
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
n.d.
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An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
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No known restrictions on publication.
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jpg
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A language of the resource
cs
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Still Image
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
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Title
A name given to the resource
Theater-Czechs in Cedar Rapids
Subject
The topic of the resource
Theater-- Cedar Rapids, IA
Description
An account of the resource
Programs, photographs, and ephemera of various theater groups in the Czech community in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Ochotnické Družstvo
Dramatický odbor Čtenářskeho Spolku (Čtenářsky Spolek) (later known as Prokop Velky č. 46 Č.S.P.S. )
Dorost’ový Klub Mládeže
Matice Školská
Dramatický sbor Katolického Sokola “Ceska Lípa”
Lodge Cedar Rapids No. 262 Western Bohemian Fraternal Association (Z.Č.B.J.)
Dramatický Kroužek Z.Č.B.J.
Ochotníci Sv. Ludmily
Dramatický a Pěvecký Klub Dvořák
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A related resource from which the described resource is derived
NCSML Archives SC. 1.33.2
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An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
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The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
pdf
jpg
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A language of the resource
cs
en- us
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The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Still Image
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
NCSML Archives SC1.33.2
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Cedar Rapids, IA
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Tisk C.R. Listů (Tisk Slovana Amerického C.R.)
Service Press Co. Printers & Binders
Allied Printing
Color Printing Co.
Slovan Americký
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1971
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Information about rights held in and over the resource
No known restrictions on publication.
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The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Photograph
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Z.Č.B.J. Dramatic Club "Zena Na Skousku" photograph
Subject
The topic of the resource
Theater--Cedar Rapids, IA.
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of Z.Č.B.J. Dramatic Club performers on stage. Twenty two performers in costume are on stage with the scenery in the background. Text on reverse "Zena Na Skousku."
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
NCSML Archives SC1.33.2
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Cedar Rapids, IA
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An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
unknown
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An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
No known restrictions on publication.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
n.d
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The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpg
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
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A language of the resource
cs
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Title
A name given to the resource
Sokol Materials
Subject
The topic of the resource
Czech-American--Cedar Rapids, IA.
Description
An account of the resource
Materials related to Cedar Rapids Sokol and Catholic Sokol of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
NCSML Archive SC 1.32.4
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
c.1919-1991
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An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
No known restrictions on publication.
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The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
pdf
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A language of the resource
cs
en-us
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The nature or genre of the resource
Text
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Cedar Rapids, IA
Iowa City, IA
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A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
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The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
program
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Western Division, A.O.S. sokol slet program, Cedar Rapids, IA 1942
Subject
The topic of the resource
Czech-Americans--Cedar Rapids, IA.
Description
An account of the resource
Pámatník sletu župy západní, A.O.S.' Programs (3) for a Sokol slet held in Cedar Rapids on June 27-28, 1942. Program includes advertisements for local businesses -Czech and English., 28 pages.
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The nature or genre of the resource
Text
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The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
pdf
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1942:06:28
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A related resource from which the described resource is derived
NCSML Archive SC 1.32.4
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Cedar Rapids, IA
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Western Division, A.O.S.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
No known restrictions on publication.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
SC1324AOSSletProg1942
Language
A language of the resource
cs
en-us
1942
Cedar Rapids
Czech language
Iowa
program
Sokol
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Recording Voices & Documenting Memories of Czech & Slovak Americans
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Recording Voices & Documenting Memories of Czech & Slovak Americans was an oral history project launched by the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in 2009. The project captured and preserved the stories of Czechs and Slovaks who left their homeland during the Cold War and settled in New York City, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area. During the second phase of the project, the NCSML recorded the stories of immigrants who came to the United States after the fall of communism in 1989 as well. By the conclusion of the project in August 2013, the NCSML had collected more than 300 oral histories. <br /><br />Both phases of the project were made possible by grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. <br /><br />On the project’s website, you can read biographies of Czechs and Slovaks who began a new life in the United States, watch video clips from their interviews, and view photos and other archival materials they shared with us. <br /><br />Full length interviews are available for further research at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library. For more information, contact Dave Muhlena, Library Director, at dmuhlena@ncsml.org.
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<h4>Refusing to Vote</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LfzKdCLHjSI?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" id="undefined"></iframe><p>“There was one moment when there were elections and I refused to vote, which was tantamount to voting no for the Party. She [my mother] was very scared about that and she was trying to convince me to go and vote. But I didn’t.”</p><p><em>What was the voting age?</em></p><p>“Eighteen.”</p><p><em>You didn’t go and vote?</em></p><p>“I didn’t go and vote, I was actually… I was on purpose not at home on the day of the voting, on the election day. Because I knew, somehow I knew that they might come to – the election committee might come and invite me to vote. And they did in my absence.”</p><h4>Acting</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fTtHxCKIHfg?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“Talking about the politics, it was very tightly controlled by the government, by the Communist Party. You were told what plays you could produce and what you could not stage. You also had to produce a Soviet play, and a play that was so-called ‘progressive’ – that was a political propaganda play. I was fortunate that actually I didn’t have to play, for the year that I was in this theatre, I didn’t have to play in any of those propaganda pieces. I even got to play in an American play. It was controlled, you were only allowed a certain percentage of Western plays, so I was in that ten percent of Western plays we were allowed to play. The theatre had altogether ten plays in a year. We would split the company and stage ten plays, of which I was in five.”</p><h4>Charter 77</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eCML_74gbaw?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“She once, during Charter 77, she – there was a meeting at her school and the Communist Party chief was talking against Charter 77 and she asked her, my mother asked her, “Well, have you read it?” And the communist said “No,” and my mother pulled out Charter 77, a copy, and handed it to her. That was definitely the wrong thing to do. Fortunately they kind of hush-hushed it, she just had to move, she couldn’t teach in that particular part of Prague anymore and eventually she stopped teaching altogether and became a dorm supervisor for high school kids, which she liked better anyway. I remember that moment when… She actually had a nervous breakdown when this happened to her, and I remember us children telling her “How could you do that? This is just something that’s not done!” And then I realized the absurdity of it, that she was doing something that was right, but of course, under that current regime, it was suicidal to do anything like that.”</p><h4>America</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qNTa0PNIuu0?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“I was scared of the United States before coming here. I knew… I guess there were still some remnants of the communist propaganda in me about America. There was what I knew from novels about crime in the United States and I was expecting that I would immediately be meetings gangsters at the airport. But that did not happen. I was met by a friend, because already in Prague we – there were three of us at [Charles University’s] Department of Philosophy that decided we would leave, and we planned together and all managed to leave at around the same time, and they already were in the United States, so I stayed with them in Queens for a little while. But my first impression: I didn’t quite meet the gangsters, but my first impression was that New York was tremendously dirty.”</p><h4>Marionette Theatre</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xiq6y2RuN8I?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“In 1984, while I was with the black light theatre [<em>Ta Fantastika</em>], I did a storytelling performance at Jan Hus Church with my three marionettes. And they told me, “We used to have a puppet theatre here.” So I kept asking what happened to the puppets until they let me go to the attic and there, in an old chest, were 24 marionettes – 24 large marionettes – between 18 and 26 inches.”</p><p><em>… The dimensions of the ones…</em></p><p>“No, these are 48 inches. These are much bigger. Maybe we can pan later on across some of those puppets here. So, I did two shows at Jan Hus Church and the second one, the next week after the discovery, I brought out a king and a <em>vodník</em> (a water spirit) and did a story with <em>vodník </em>and a story with the king. And then kind of kept thinking about them. And when I quit the black light theatre I put together with another friend, Jan Unger, who studied puppetry at the puppetry school in Prague – the Academy of Musical Arts [DAMU] had a puppetry department – so with him I put together a puppet company.</p><p>“My own training in puppetry really goes to childhood when I played with my mother’s toy puppet theatre from the 1920s and, together with my brother and sister, we put on shows. Fairy tales, mostly.”</p><h4>New York</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DZhSVrgwvvw?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“I was really determined not to be closed in a Czech community. So I met some Czechs, but I was trying to totally live in an American circle, in American circles, and I purposely avoided Czechs. And despite that I met some Czechs who are good friends, but it took quite a while before I joined some Czech organizations, and that was after I started our theatre company. And surprisingly enough – that is contradicting everything I was saying, but I was trying not to meet Czechs, but I was telling Czech stories and started a Czech puppet theatre company.”</p><h4>Daughter</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Qk_IG_S6L0?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“At one point I tried, I was reading to my daughter in Czech when she was really small, and at some point she started refusing it, at a point where she recognized that she didn’t understand, she suddenly started refusing reading in Czech. And I gave up too easily, I guess, because years later she complained that I never taught her Czech.”</p>
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Vit Horejs
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<p>Vit Horejs was born in Prague in 1950. His father, Jaromír, was a teacher and author (who published over 50 books), while his mother, Věra, taught gym and Czech. Vit was the youngest of three siblings. Growing up in communist Czechoslovakia, he says he ‘believed in the system’ and even became Young Pioneer of the Year when he was around ten years old. Vit says he became disillusioned following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. That same year, he made his first trip to France. It was at this time that Vit began studying French, philosophy and theatre at Charles University in Prague. He returned to France in 1969, having faked an invitation to secure himself an exit permit. Also during his studies, Vit visited England which, he says, made him ‘fall in love with English’ and consider a life abroad. He stayed in the United Kingdom for longer than his exit permit allowed and so had his passport confiscated upon his return to Czechoslovakia.</p><p> </p><p>Vit graduated from university in 1975 and went to the Moravian town of Šumperk to take an acting job in the municipal theatre. He left the theatre after one year so as to move back to Prague, where he worked as a freelance actor and developed plans to leave the country. The chance came in 1978 when Vit was translating Primo Levy’s <em>Il Sistema Periodico</em>; he says he managed to procure an invitation from the author to consult with him on the translation in Italy. Vit left Czechoslovakia in March 1978. He did travel to Italy, but continued on to France, where he spent one year in Paris, studying mime and waiting for either the United Kingdom or the United States to process his visa request. He arrived in New York City in February 1979, sponsored by the American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees. Vit settled briefly in Queens, working first as a bike messenger and then a cab driver. He subsequently moved to Manhattan and became involved in the Czech-American black light theatre company <em>Divadlo Ta Fantastika</em>. He stayed with <em>Ta Fantastika</em> for a number of years, moving to Florida in the mid-1980s with the company. Towards the end of the 1980s, however, Vit embarked upon his own venture, the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre – using (among other props) puppets unearthed in the attic of New York City’s Jan Hus Presbyterian Church.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Vit has toured the United States with the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre on several occasions, often performing his adaptations of traditional Czech fairytales (such as Rusalka and Jenůfa) in American schools. He serves on the board of the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association and lives in Manhattan with his wife Bonnie. The couple have one daughter, Sarazina, who is currently in the Czech Republic on a scholarship learning Czech.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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Czech-Americans--Cedar Rapids, IA.
Czech-Americans--Iowa
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Christmas card from the Vane family. Hand drawn artwork and calligraphy done by V.E. Váné with the words 'Veselé Vánoce!' and a Christmas motif -Czech language.
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Recording Voices & Documenting Memories of Czech & Slovak Americans
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Recording Voices & Documenting Memories of Czech & Slovak Americans was an oral history project launched by the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in 2009. The project captured and preserved the stories of Czechs and Slovaks who left their homeland during the Cold War and settled in New York City, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area. During the second phase of the project, the NCSML recorded the stories of immigrants who came to the United States after the fall of communism in 1989 as well. By the conclusion of the project in August 2013, the NCSML had collected more than 300 oral histories. <br /><br />Both phases of the project were made possible by grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. <br /><br />On the project’s website, you can read biographies of Czechs and Slovaks who began a new life in the United States, watch video clips from their interviews, and view photos and other archival materials they shared with us. <br /><br />Full length interviews are available for further research at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library. For more information, contact Dave Muhlena, Library Director, at dmuhlena@ncsml.org.
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<h4>Father</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bKda885FPwo?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" id="undefined"></iframe><p>“My father was a journalist, but he had to be very careful about what he said. He worked at the Ministry of Information, and of course everything was very strictly audited and basically controlled by the Germans. He got into some trouble with the Gestapo one time by using a sort of pun. He was forced, because he had a good speaking voice, he was compelled to read the news once a week and, on this one particular occasion, they were talking about the collision of the German troops and the allied troops. And the term used in Czech is <em>srazka</em>, which means collision, and there is also a vulgar word very similar to that which means diarrhea. And, of course, his colleagues – when he was rehearsing – his colleagues were teasing him and said ‘What if you said this?’ When my dad sat before the microphone, he blurted that out, and of course, before he was finished, a couple of Gestapo officers were waiting for him and took him into this infamous Petschkuv Palac. My father wasn’t tortured, but he was interrogated for 24 hours. And then, oddly enough, a high ranking official intervened on his behalf and he was released.”</p><h4>Cleared</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HFlNKVM3Dm4?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p class="wp-caption-text">Tony’s father Antonin in 1946</p><p>“It was a difficult job for him, you know. On one to pretend, you know, that he was not against the German occupation and on the other hand still knowing and feeling that the Nazi occupation will not last very long. And during those days of the uprising in Prague, he was also actively involved in broadcasting and running messages from various centers of resistance in Prague.”</p><h4>The War</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2Gw6EEIWZBU?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“There was a sort of a black market, whereby city dwellers would trade various items. Like my dad traded books and, I think, a bicycle for a goose or a turkey with a farmer that he knew. And of course, you had to be very careful bringing it to Prague during the, usually on weekends, because they would have special civilian officials who would control what was being brought to Prague and quite often it would be confiscated. So yes, for us [children] it was sort of funny, but there was an element of danger, certainly, for the adults.”</p><h4>Communist Coup</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UTltUpQjLKM?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“I got a new pair of skis, and this was a two-week stay in the mountains, near where my father was born. And I was very anxious of course to be there, to try my new skis and so forth. My father knew that the crisis was developing in Czechoslovakia so he was very reluctant to let me go, but my mother was on my side. She begged him to allow me to go. And of course, by the time I returned to Prague, a week or so later – two weeks later actually – my father was gone already. He had crossed the border to West Germany successfully. While I was still away from Prague, and my father was gone at this time, the Communist police would come and look for some incriminating documents against my father, trying to punish my mother for the anti-communist work that my dad did. And of course my mother said that she did not share my father’s views and so on and so forth. She said ‘Well, I’m willing to divorce him because he abandoned the family.’ But they didn’t believe her, of course. And we were not directly persecuted, but obviously, there was no pension, there was no money during this time for my mother to have, but we had relatives and friends who supported us financially for a few months until our escape from Czechoslovakia in September 1948.”</p><h4>Escape into Germany</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IHWxyBuqBpQ?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“They registered everything. My mother had some valuables, some dollars and some gold rings, I think, that she had sewn into her bra of all places. But they threatened to punish us if we did not turn everything over to them. But be it to the credit of German precision, they recorded everything and it traveled with us from one refugee camp to another and, 27 months later, when we were leaving Germany, all this stuff was returned to my mother!”</p><h4>Refugee Camps</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U_s8N3S9mQ8?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“For children, it was not the worst of times. I think a lot of adults suffered from various forms of depression, when it seemed almost hopeless, that they would never get out of these refugee camps. We had to go before an American consul in the occupied zone of Germany – the American zone – and he told us, and various other immigration authorities told us ‘Well, why don’t you go to Australia? You can meet your father there, and, after all, this is not going to last forever! The Iron Curtain is not going to last forever! In a few weeks you will be able to go back to Czechoslovakia.’ Everybody was ignorant of how long the Cold War would last, you know, in those days. Fortunately, we did not give in to that suggestion, but, we had to stay for 27 months, or two years and a quarter, in those refugee camps.</p><p>“Children, I think, adjust far better than adults, you know. Even though I had thoughts of perhaps never leaving Germany, I didn’t take it as hard as my mother. But we sort of leaned on one another and, you know, became very close.”</p><h4>American Citizen</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s1BbEXNzJ24?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“I’m happy to be an American citizen, but my heart is still in the old country, in many, many ways. You know, I just cannot forget – I have very vivid memories, as you’ll notice, of my childhood and my recent visits to the Czech Republic have always been very pleasant. So, I like to go back, but I wouldn’t want to go there and live permanently. I just became too much of an American over the years.”</p>
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Tony Jandacek
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<p>Tony Jandacek was born in Prague in 1934 and grew up in the city’s Smíchov district. His father, Antonín Jandáček, was a journalist who worked for the Ministry of Information during WWII, while his mother, Marie, worked as a secretary at a glass cutting company during the War. In 1945, Tony’s father was found not guilty on charges of Nazi collaboration and continued to work for the government until the Communist coup. When the Communists took over in February 1948, Tony was away on a ski trip in northeastern Bohemia. By the time he returned from the mountains one week later, his father had fled the country; Tony did not see his father for another three years. The family received no news of Antonín Jandáček until May 1948, when they received a postcard sent from Chicago, bearing no name but clearly in his handwriting. In September 1948, the remaining Jandáčeks crossed the border illegally at Železná Ruda into Germany. They pretended they were hunting for mushrooms, says Tony, who led the expedition.</p><p> </p><p>Tony spent 27 months with his mother, sister and brother in various refugee camps in Germany (including Regensburg, Ludwigsburg and Pforzheim), before the family was allowed to travel to the United States and reunite with Tony’s father. Tony became an American citizen in 1954. He served in the United States Air Force between 1953 and 1957 and later became a Czech teacher at Morton High School, where he was formerly a student. Tony lives in La Grange Park with his Czech-American wife, Carmella, and works as a court interpreter with Czechs in Chicago.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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1948 emigrant/refugee
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German
Journalism
Mushrooms
Nazis
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school
Smichov
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Zelezna Ruda
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Recording Voices & Documenting Memories of Czech & Slovak Americans
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Recording Voices & Documenting Memories of Czech & Slovak Americans was an oral history project launched by the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in 2009. The project captured and preserved the stories of Czechs and Slovaks who left their homeland during the Cold War and settled in New York City, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area. During the second phase of the project, the NCSML recorded the stories of immigrants who came to the United States after the fall of communism in 1989 as well. By the conclusion of the project in August 2013, the NCSML had collected more than 300 oral histories. <br /><br />Both phases of the project were made possible by grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. <br /><br />On the project’s website, you can read biographies of Czechs and Slovaks who began a new life in the United States, watch video clips from their interviews, and view photos and other archival materials they shared with us. <br /><br />Full length interviews are available for further research at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library. For more information, contact Dave Muhlena, Library Director, at dmuhlena@ncsml.org.
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<h4>Velvet Revolution</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JEYW3jUagxY?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" id="undefined"></iframe><p>“I remember the Revolution itself. I remember it sort of as a feeling. I know our parents, mostly because we were little, we watched it on TV. They did not go, because they had two little kids at home, they did not go <em>zvonit klíči</em>[jingling keys], as they call it, in the square, but we stayed at home and I just know that we felt that something essential was changing in our life. I remember when I started to go in elementary school, it had already changed, it was already past the Revolution, but the manners and the way the teachers taught was still very much in the communist way. I remember in the very first grade, I’m a left-hander and they tried to make me a right-hander, which was a common practice during communism, and I said no. I was like ‘No way. I’m a left-hander and I’m going to be that way.’ I think either my mother or my father went to school and said ‘No, this is not going to happen, this is not communism anymore.’ So this is one of my memories. Mostly the Revolution was just a feeling, but one of my memories from growing up is that after the Revolution, it was sort of a chaos that happened, and I know that growing up in Jižní Město, sometimes the neighborhood was very crazy at those times. During communism, I think everything was more uniform, everybody was the same; you did not have drunks on the streets. It was just sort of, all very gray, but very uniform, very same, and then everything sort of changed, and all of the sudden there were immigrants allowed in the Czech Republic. Everything changed and it was a bit of a chaos.”</p><h4>Impressions of America</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QSC-fEanza4?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“I think most people have no idea – if they were never here – what the United States are about. I think at some point, when I was a teenager, I imagined it as from [the TV show] <em>Friends</em>. Young people living together in a cool apartment in Manhattan, just hanging out all the time. That’s a bit how I imagined it, but that’s when I was a teenager. I think before I came here, I knew a number of people who lived here, I heard stories; I knew it from television and music. I think it was still a shock. Also, for a part, because I did not come directly to New York, but the first four months I used to live in Washington, D.C. which I imagined very, very differently because it’s a capital and I imagined just as a strip with the White House and the Capitol, but that wasn’t the case. So I lived in several different parts in Washington, D.C. and that was a bit of shock; I did not expect that was what it was going to be like.”</p><h4>Change in the Community</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kQmXAIohi8E?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“I would say it changed completely. I would say it changed rapidly. Before, the Czech community was living together. Most Czechs were concentrated in one neighborhood, there were Czech stores, restaurants, you name it. It was really a Czech neighborhood. Just from the stories I’ve heard, Czechs, at those times, were really helping each other. They were capable of doing things such as working a 12- hour shift in one restaurant and then going next door to the competition of the restaurant and volunteer for another four to five hours to help fix the restaurant or build the restaurant. So it was really a community thing; the community was very, very tight together and working closely.</p><p>“Right now, I would say it’s more spread out. At some point a lot of Czechs moved out to the rest of the United States and then in New York the ones in New York moved to Long Island and Staten Island and all over the city. I would say the older community, which is now much smaller, they still hold together. They’re still very active in their community and they organize events together. As far as the younger Czechs, not as much. Younger Czechs have the tendency – I would say it’s almost the Czech mentality now – to be as far as possible from the Czech community. They want to live their own life, they don’t want to be part of the community, they don’t want to have Czech friends. They just want to stay on their own. And I would say me, in the beginning, before I got involved in the BBLA, I was very much the same. I was not trying to get as far as possible from the Czech community, but I would say I had two actual friends and that was it. The rest of my friends were either American or from anywhere else. The young Czechs just don’t want to be part of the community as much.”</p><p><em>Why?</em></p><p>“I don’t know. I can’t speak for them, I can speak for myself, but I did not leave Czech Republic to go to Czech concerts and eat in Czech restaurants. No, I wanted to experience New York for what New York really is. So that was my experience. Hard to say for everybody else.”</p><h4>Divide</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i7A99F2j9Uk?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“There is a divide, definitely. The young community is very divided from the older community. I’m probably a bit of a bridge between them. The reasons are hard to say; there could probably be studies about it. For me, I think the main reason is it’s the actual reason why they people left the country. The older Czechs left for political reasons and they all sort of have this common reason why they left. They left because of Communism. To sort of seek freedom. Today’s Czechs, they all have their own reasons. A big part is the financial thing, they wanted to make money which is not going to bring people together from my experience. They want to make their money on their own somewhere and not be heard from and then go back with the money or do something with the money. There’s a million other reasons, but it’s not one common reason, and that’s the biggest reason why they don’t stick together much and they don’t stick with the older community.”</p><h4>Heritage</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kmB4fzBIdkw?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“My son, I speak to him Czech; however, at home, we do speak in English. I do speak to him in Czech; it’s hard to teach him actually Czech. I do want him to speak Czech definitely, but I think I probably don’t speak enough to him. He speaks mostly in English. He has some Czech words that he follows and he always says that in Czech, but he speaks mostly English. He understands some more Czech, but I think it’s going to take a lot of effort for him to speak Czech, and I will have to put him in a Czech school here and I will have to be sending him for vacations in Czech a lot. But I do want him to speak Czech definitely.”</p><h4>Adopted City</h4><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nnQwmK9O52o?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>“I love it here in New York of course. I think it’s such a great city that it’s hard after New York to start anywhere else because it’s never going to match up.”</p><p><em>What do you think makes it so great?</em></p><p>“I’ve thought about it a lot and I think for a part, it’s all this mix of all the nations and races. That’s probably one reason, but I don’t think that’s the sole reason of it. The city just has its soul. I think every city has its own atmosphere and feeling. So as Prague does, so I think New York does as well.”</p>
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Tomas Hadl
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<p>Tomas Hadl was born in Prague in 1985. His mother is a doctor who has a private practice in Prague while his father is an economist who works for the Czech bank ČSOB; prior to the Velvet Revolution, he worked at the Ministry of Finance. Tomas grew up in Jižní Město, a 1970s housing estate in Prague consisting of dozens of <em>paneláky</em> (high-rise apartment buildings). Tomas describes his building as ‘gray’ and ‘grim,’ but he says that there was a distinct change in his neighborhood following the Velvet Revolution and that it became ‘crazy.’ He attended <em>gymnázium</em> in Jižní Město and began working as a production assistant at Česká televise [Czech public television] while still at school. Tomas continued this job after his graduation and worked his way up to become a script supervisor. In 2005, Tomas decided he wanted to travel and signed up with an agency to work as a lifeguard in Washington, D.C. for four months. Although he says his experience with the agency was not what he expected, a weekend trip to New York inspired him to extend his visa and remain in the country.</p><p> </p><p>Tomas lived with some Czech friends in Staten Island, but says that he was not actively involved in the Czech community for his first few years in New York. He knew little English and learned the language through conversation with friends. After working several jobs, he met the president of the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA), the organization in charge of Bohemian National Hall in Manhattan which acts as an umbrella organization for a number of Czech and Slovak heritage groups. In 2008, Tomas began volunteering at the BBLA; today he works as a manager for the organization and is responsible for coordinating events, managing business affairs, and maintaining a relationship with both the Czech Foreign Ministry and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic. He also works for a consulting and project management firm. Tomas lives in Staten Island with his wife and their three-year old son.</p>
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1989
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Jizni Mesto
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Velvet Revolution
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Personal Documents & Photographs
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Czech-Americans--Cedar Rapids, IA.
Czech-Americans--Iowa
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Documents and photographs related to the Czech communities in Iowa.
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NCSML Archive SC1.31.1
NCSML SC1.35.3
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1885-1950
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Iowa, United States
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Theodor Hlubůček residency permit, 1903
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Czech-Americans--Cedar Rapids, IA.
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Residency Permit for Theodor Hlubůček in the town of Žamberk in the Austro-Hungarian empire (the Pardubice Region of the present day Czech Republic). Hlubůček lived in Cedar Rapids, IA later in life.
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1903:11:25
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Žamberk, Czech Republic
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F. Hoblík v Pardubicích
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Miscellaneous Documents Related to Czechs in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Czech-Americans--Cedar Rapids, IA.
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NCSML Archive SC 1.31.3
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The Prague Teachers' Chorus program, Cedar Rapids, IA, 1929
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Czech-Americans--Cedar Rapids, IA.
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Program for Prague Teachers’ Chorus. Held at Shrine Temple in Cedar Rapids, IA on February 4, 1929.
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Cedar Rapids, IA
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The Prauge Teacher's Chorus
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