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The EMILE project in the Czech Republic.
The Rozmberk Society is the Czech partner for the EMILE project. The Society is a Czech non-profit organization for heritage conservation and regional development. Our operating area is the mostly flat, rural fishpond region in the eastern part of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. The Society also runs a small museum in the protected village of Kojakovice, focused on rural village history and emigration to North America in the period 1850-1910.
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Working on the EMILE project are Robert Dulfer (coordinator, website) and Olga Cerna (emigration expert), assisted by Jakub Cerny, Zdenek Dupac, and others.
The Society cooperates with other Czech partners to help realize EMILE, notably the Naprstek Museum Prague, the Trebon State Archive, and the Czech-English Gymnasium (Ceske Budejovice). In addition, the Society has strong contacts with American descendants of Czech emigrants, in particularly through Jilovice-Kojakovice Sister City Oxford Junction, Iowa, and the US charity Friends of the Rozmberk Society Inc and its board members.
The EMILE project is linked to other historic emigration activities of the Society, from displays in our museum to a EU Socrates education project "Migration and Intercultural Relations" and the American activities of saving the memories and history of the early settlers.
On 21 July 2005, a traveling exhibition made during the EMILE project will open in the historic Rozmberk Castle in Trebon. Throughout the summer, this exhibition will remain in the Rozmberk Castle, later it will be on display in other locations as well.
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