Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Funny Story

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Funny Story Our granddaughter Lulu was over this morning, and Linda and I were sitting around the dining room table, and Lulu asked, ...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

All of History's Polacks

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"All of History's Polacks" I'm going to do a presentation today at the annual conference of Holocaust Educators...
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Father's Day Post: What My Father Ate

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My father spent more than 4 years in Buchenwald Concentration Camp as a Polish slave laborer. He was captured in a round up when he went to...
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Monday, June 12, 2017

Anne Frank's Birthday

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Anne Frank's birthday is June 12. She would have been 88 years old if the Nazis had not killed her. I first read her diary for a clas...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

War 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 concentra...
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Thursday, May 11, 2017

Mother's Day Poem

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Mother’s Day Poem I remember my mother, her old house, the miracle of her love, h...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Hitler's Suicide Day -- April 30

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72 years ago today, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. Some historians say he killed himself with a cyanide capsule, others say he shot himself...
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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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