On Friday, May 11, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML) unveiled its oral history exhibit Leaving Czechoslovakia at Oak Park Public Library in Illinois. The exhibit draws upon the first two years’ worth of interviews gathered through Recording Voices & Documenting Memories, and focuses on Cold War-era Czech & Slovak immigration to the United States.
The exhibit runs until May 27 in the library’s ‘Idea Box.’ It is free and open to the public.
At the exhibit opening, speeches were given by members of Oak Park Public Library’s board with a Czech connection, Mila Tellez and David Sokol. The Consul General of the Czech Republic in Chicago, Dana Hunatova, and the Slovak Honorary Consul Rosemary Macko Wisnosky also spoke.
Patriotic Slovak and Czech cupcakes were provided by the NCSML Guild. They proved to be something of a fashion statement:
Click here for more information about Leaving Czechoslovakia at Oak Park Public Library.
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