My immediate family dabbled in our Czech heritage as I was growing up. We often visited my maternal grandmother, Antonia, who came through Ellis Island in 1915 to live in Binghamton, New York, as an ...

For Klara Sotonova’s parents in the Czech Republic, 20,000 koruna was a lot of money. The equivalent of about $800, they had saved that sum for when their daughter would get married. And at 19, a ...