Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Winter in America

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Winters were hard when I was a kid in America. We were Polish refugees and immigrants, victims of Hitler and WWII, and we lived in shacks ...
Friday, January 1, 2016

New Year's Poem

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New Year's Poem Hope is kind. Hope is a door and a window. Hope is the silly neighbor child we ignore when we are children ours...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

My Mother's Death -- a sonnet

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The Dead are Dead Death was a wind and a flood. It came in the night and it came in the light. It broke the children and their parents...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

A Story My Mother Told Me

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My mother spent 3 years in the slave labor camps in Nazi Germany.  Here is a story she heard from one of the other Polish women there. A ...
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Friday, December 4, 2015

Nazi Artifacts and Memorabilia

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I was reading a fine essay by Matthew Vollmer about visiting the home of a man who collected Nazi artifacts and memorabilia, and it go...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

SUFFERING

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I've given a lot of thought and feeling to suffering over the years.  My father spent 4 years in a concentratio...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Paris

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Bad People People being evil?  Why do they do it? I don't know.  But they seem to be doing it a lot more.  There was...
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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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