Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

My father wasn't an educated man.  He was born on a small farm in western Poland and never attended school.  He used to joke that th...

When we first arrived in Chicago in 1952, we were lost. We had spent 6 years in the DP camps in Germany and another year outside of Bu...

Tens of thousands of Poles in Eastern Poland were killed between 1943 and 1944 by Ukrainian Nationalists working with their German colle...

The First Poem I Wrote about My Parents I've been writing poems for about 37 years now.  I started when I was in grad school at Pur...

"All of History's Polacks" I'm going to do a presentation today at the annual conference of Holocaust Educators...

When I was a child growing up in Chicago, All Souls Day wasn't a big deal. But in Poland it was.  At least that's what my parents sa...

My mother died seven years ago this January 18.  She died in a hospice in Sun City, Arizona.   When she died, we had her funeral s...

Today, June 6, is the anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe.  It's a day that means a lot to me.  My parents were two of the mi...

On September 1, 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland. In those first days and the six years that followed, more than five million Poles died. ...

In her book Waiting To Be Heard: The Polish Christian Experience Under Nazi and Stalinist Oppression 1939-1955 , Bogusia Wojciechowska bring...

When I was a child growing up in Chicago, All Souls Day wasn't a big deal. My parents would tell me stories about what it was like in P...

I've been looking forward to this memoir by Rulka Langer for a very long time. It's the first publication of Aquila Polonica , a ne...

I first met Dr. Bogusia Wojciechowska over the internet about five years ago. Someone sent me a note about her and her work, and I got in...

  I recently received the following information regarding the upcoming conference (Oct. 3-4) sponsored by the Andy Golebiowski and the Poli...

This September 1st marks the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland. This invasion and the subsequent invasion by their Soviet all...

I recently received an email from the artist Carolyn Bardos . We were exchanging notes about my parents and their experiences in the war, an...

73 years ago on September 1. 1939, the Germans invaded Poland. Their blitzkrieg, their lightning war, came from the air and the sea and th...

In the 50s, when I was a child growing up around Humboldt Park in Chicago, the biggest non-religious holiday was not Halloween or the 4 of J...

I posted a piece recently on this blog about Growing Up Polish American . One of the things I talked about was a series of photos I had once...

April is the month when many of the killings at Katyn Forest took place during World War II. Poles try to remember this every year, and I...