Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Monday, April 28, 2014

Holocaust Remembrance Day

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My father spent four years as a slave laborer in Nazi Germany, and my mother spent two and a half years there.  They were two of about 12 ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Simple Polish Soup

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A Recipe for a Simple Polish Soup When my mother was in her late 70s, she couldn't cook for herself any more.  Her heart and he...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Easter Poem: What My Father Believed

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My father wasn't an educated man.  He was born on a small farm in Poland and never attended school.  He didn't know much about ...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

A Story about Dying

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When my father was dying, his dying was awfully hard.  He had liver cancer, and in the hospital they...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Night in the Labor Camp

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My father spent 4 years as a slave laborer in Nazi Germany.  He was a prisoner in Buchenwald and its sub camps.  He wor...
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What the War Taught Her

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Today, at George Washington High School here in Danville, I did a poetry reading about my mom and her experiences as a slave labor...
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Radiant Poetry

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Here's a review of my book  Lightning and Ashes by Grady Harp.  He's one of Amazon's Top Ten Reviewers. Radiant Poetry Jo...
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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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