Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

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Showing posts with label liberation. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

The Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, April 11, 1945

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On April 11, 1945, American troops liberated Buchnewald Concentration Camp.  It was a large camp housing about 80,000 prisoners, Poles, Sl...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Remembering D-Day: 70th Anniversary

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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 ...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

67th Anniversary of the Liberation of Buchenwald

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April 11 was the 67th anniversary of the liberation of  Buchenwald Concentration Camp. My dad spent four and a half years there.  ...
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John Guzlowski
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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