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Celebrating a City That No Longer Exists

Gottscheers are a small immigrant group in the US. Their homeland does not exist anymore. They come from a German-speaking city in what is now Slovenia. The whole community was uprooted after World War Two. Here is what is left of Gottschee in New York.

(Photo: Gottscheers and their descendants celebrate at the annual Gottscheer Volksfest in New York City. Credit: Daniel Gross)

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