Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Day My Mother Died

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My mother died six years ago, January 27, 2006. She died in a hospice in Sun City, Arizona. It was a beautiful place, out in the desert, ...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Thanksgiving Day Poem

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I wrote the following poem to thank my parents and all of my relatives who suffered in World War II. Some like my parents survived and oth...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Sept. 1, 1939: The Day World War II Started

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On September 1, 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland. In those first days and the six years that followed, more than five million Poles died. ...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

Father's Day

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  My father didn't teach me to fish or play ball or paint a fence or drive a car. He couldn't do any of those things. He was an or...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

Code Name: Zegota: Rescuing Jews in Occupied Poland, 1942-1945: The Most Dangerous Conspiracy

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Irene Tomaszewski and Tecia Werbowski have recently published the American edition of their book about Polish attempts to save Jews during t...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Memorial Day: My Wife's Uncle Buddy

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I first posted this blog about 2 years ago: I got a letter from Linda's Uncle Buddy. For Christmas, Linda's dad Tony gave his brothe...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Holocaust Remembrance Day

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I can remember the Holocaust, but I can't do much more. I can't imagine it, I can't describe it, I can't understand it. ...
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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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