Former HBO director is talking about his Slovak roots, traditions, food and his exciting trip to Slovakia to meet his long lost family. Slovaks in New Britain CT. Hardware Capitol of the world. Stifel Family history documentary: https://youtu.be/MQqsBFum6wo

Podcast picture:

Original Stifel Family photo from the mid 1930’s.

This is the backyard of the family house and the one Chirs was born in.

STANDING  FROM Left to Right- FIRST ROW:    GEORGE STIFEL, MARY STIFEL KEENER,  GRANDMA JULIA MALINAK STIFEL, GRANDPA JOHN STIFEL, UNCLE JOHN STIFEL.

2ND  ROW Left to Right: Standing and held by my Grandmother is  FELIX  STIFEL, Kneeling:  STEPHEN STIFEL,  Kneeling: JOSEPH STIFEL (Chrises Father)

Story of Les Horan from Prešov/Sabinov Slovakia told by his wife Abigail Lumsden.

Dramatic story of survival of a Jewish boy and his family and their return to Slovakia after decades.

Saga of the Slovak families in PA. The hardworkers that valued education and reached their American dream.

After the decades they came to Slovakia to find their roots and reunite with the forgotten family.