Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

A Polish Doctor in a Nazi Camp: A Review by Girija Sankar

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The following review of Barbara Rylko-Bauer's A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Interview with John Guzlowski: Spoon River Poetry Review

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In January 2006, I went up to Atlanta and met my friend Bruce Guernsey in a Ruby Tuesday Restaurant to do the following interview for  Spoon...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Mother's Day Poem

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Mother’s Day Poem I remember my mother, her old house, the miracle of her love...
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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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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