Each year in New York, Gottscheers celebrate the culture of a city that no longer exists

The World | Jul 27, 2015

Gottscheers are a small immigrant group in the US. The thing is, their homeland doesn't exist anymore. They come from a German speaking city in what is now Slovenia. And the whole community was uprooted after World War II. Here's what's left of Gottschee in New York.

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