Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

My Parents' Experiences as Polish Slave Laborers in Nazi Germany and Displaced Persons after the War

Friday, September 13, 2019

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I was born in a refugee camp in Germany after World War II, and came with my parents Jan and Tekla and my sister Donna to the United States as Displaced Persons in 1951. My Polish Catholic parents had been slave laborers in Nazi Germany. Growing up in the immigrant and DP neighborhoods around Humboldt Park in Chicago, I met Jewish hardware store clerks with Auschwitz tattoos on their wrists, Polish cavalry officers who still mourned for their dead horses, and women who walked from Siberia to Iran to escape the Russians. My poems try to remember them and their voices. These poems have appeared in my chapbook Language of Mules and in both editions of Charles Fishman’s anthology of American poets on the Holocaust, Blood to Remember. Since retiring from teaching American Literature in 2005, I've written two new books about my parents. My new poems about them appear in my books Echoes of Tattered Tongues (Aquila Polonica, 2017) and True Confessions (Darkhouse Books, 2019).
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REVIEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT MY BOOKS

  • Harvard Review -- Echoes of Tattered Tongues
  • World Literature Today -- Rev of Echoes of Tattered Tongues
  • Onager Editions Review of Lightning and Ashes
  • Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz's Review of My Book Language of Mules
  • Milosz: Syn niewolników (Review in Polish)
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  • Review of Lightning and Ashes
  • StorySouth Review of Third Winter of War by Jennifer Whitaker
  • TOM NAPIERKOWSKI'S ARTICLE ON LIGHTNING AND ASHES, FROM POLISH AMERICAN STUDIES
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  • Laurel Johnson of Midwest Book Review on Lightning and Ashes
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ESSAYS

  • Some Background on the Slave Labor and DP Camps
  • The Wooden Trunk We Brought with Us from Germany
  • GROWING UP POLISH AMERICAN
  • Displaced Persons in the Polish Triangle, Chicago, 1950s
  • What My Father Believed
  • DIVERSITY: VIDEO
  • Christmas and Forgiveness
  • History and Numbers
  • How I Came to Write Lighting and Ashes
  • Nov. 11, 1918: The Day the War Ended
  • Women and War
  • Why I Wrote The Third Winter of War:Buchenwald
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  • An Interview with John Guzlowski

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  • Writing the Holocaust (co-edited with Charles Fishman)
    The Day My Mother Died
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  • A Polish Son
    OBITUARY FOR LEONARD J. KNIFFEL-WRITER, EDITOR PUBLISHER AND LIBRARIAN (AUGUST 25, 1947-MARCH 19, 2021)
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    4 years ago
  • Polish Diaspora
  • Displaced Persons (DP) Camps
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