Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

In This War Dream by Stephen Herz

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This is a poem by Stephen Herz, author of Marked: Poems of the Holocaust . IN THIS WAR DREAM Wars don't change except in name ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014

SAD BOY WITH RED ACCESSORIES by Henry Avignon

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Henry Avignon is an artist friend of mine, and recently when I read something he wrote about the kind of paintings he does.  His piece hit h...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

REPARATIONS

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Recently, I was following a discussion on Facebook about reparations from the German Government to people who suffered in the conce...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

Ekphrastic Poem

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Ekphrastic Poem:  In the photo, she stands behind a crescent moon. Behind her there...
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Friday, June 27, 2014

Ten Things I See from the Division Street Bus, 1967

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Ten Things I see from the Division Street Bus, 1967 1.       The young man in a white T-shirt and black slacks puts his right h...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Escape into Life

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Five of my poems were recently featured in the online journal  Escape into Life.  The poems are somewhat different from those I norm...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Aging Isn't Easy

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I just turned 66 and last night I got a birthday note from my sister.  She wanted to know about my health, so I told he...
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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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