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150 years ago, refugees from Silesia (a Polish, German, Czech region) found a home in Texas
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/tomasz-liboska-don-t-mess-with-texas
We set off to Texas in 2009. It was just over 155 years after the first group of exiles left Silesia—a region on the border between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Throughout their history, the Silesians have had trouble defining themselves. Are they Polish? Are they German? Are they something different altogether? We wanted to discover what remained of these long removed ancestors.