Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

Today, June 6, is the anniversary of the invasion of Europe, and by chance I was in a high school about to begin a presentation about my par...

This is a reading of "What the War Taught Her," a poem about my mother's experiences in the slave labor camps of Nazi Germany....

The Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944, and lasted for 63 days. When the fighting stopped. The city was in ruins. A quarter of a mil...

66 years ago today, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. Some historians say he killed himself with a cyanide capsule, others say he shot himsel...

The following list was compiled by William Szych and his friends at the the Facebook group "The Way Back -- Stories of Poland's Rap...

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, ...

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...