Through The Looking Glass: A Young New Yorker Explores Her Gottschee Roots in Slovenia

Gottschee was a former German-speaking settlement in the Habsburg Empire, in what is now southern Slovenia. Settled by Germanic farmers between 1330 and 1400, the enclave has been a county, a duchy, a district and a municipality throughout various parts of its history. But during WWII, Yugoslavia adopted an anti-Axis position and the German Gottscheers were forced to relocate, launching the community into a never-ending search for a new home.