Sudetenland Immigrants to the USA

[alice24]

As this board has mostly american posters:
We had an migration exhibition in the museum I worked and I noticed many people from eastern germany and sudetenland also migrated into the USA in the beginning of the 20th century. As part of my family has roots in today czech republik, I´m curious. Is there still a community alive that keeps catholic sudetenland traditions in the USA? I am aware of other german groups oversea that keep language and some traditions, but particulary migration from Sudetenland was new to me.

 

[adamhovey1988]

I don’t know; check with people from the midwest because that is where a large proportion of that population would have went.

 

[starlady]

Lots of small Midwestern towns still celebrate their national heritages…here in Nebraska, for example, there are small towns that were primarily settled by the Irish, the Czechs, the Polish, and Germans. Usually this will consist of an annual festival that incorporates some of the traditions and foods from those countries. In Omaha, there are individual parishes that were originally mostly Italian, Czech, Polish, etc, and sometimes they have their own festivals as well. In Omaha, there’s a German American society, but it’s secular.

My own family immigrated from western Germany and settled first in Iowa, and then part of the family went to Nebraska to be farmers, which is what they were in Germany as well.