Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

LA BOOK TOUR -- OCT 7-9, 2016

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LA BOOK TOUR, Oct. 7-9 I'll be doing 6 book events in the LA area to talk about Echoes of Tattered Tongues, m...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

A 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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Monday, September 19, 2016

Today the Gypsies are Burning

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My poem "Today the Gypsies are Burning" was recently featured as the poem of the day at Verse Daily . The ...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

What My Father Ate

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My father survived almost 5 years of slave labor in Buchenwald Concentration Camp. He worked 12-14 hours a day and 6 and 7 days a week,...
Friday, September 9, 2016

9/11 15 Years Later

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One of the things that the past teaches us is that there is really no end to the past. I saw this in my parents. For them World War ...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Labor Day

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Labor Day My parents were both hard workers.  They grew up on farms in Poland when much of the work was still done by hand.   Then there...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

77th Anniversary of the Start of World War II

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Today is the 77th anniversay of the start of WWII. The following essay appears in  Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolde...
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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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