Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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...

My parents met in a concentration camp in Germany toward the end of World War II. My mom had been brought to Germany by the Nazis to wor...

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...

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

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

My parents met in a concentration camp in Germany toward the end of World War II. My mom had been brought to Germany by the Nazis to...

In the year after her death, I was writing a lot of poems about my mother and my father and their experiences in the war. Those poems grew ...

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

The population of Poland was about 36,000,000 when the Nazis decided to destroy the country and its people. Six million of them died. The ...