Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Monday, July 3, 2017

Coming to America

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Coming to America When I asked my mother what we had when we came from the refugee camps in Germany, she shrugged and started the list: so...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

What Elie Wiesel Knew

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Today is the first anniversary of the death of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author. Here is a poem I wrote last year when I he...
Saturday, July 1, 2017

Memory

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Memory I once had the immigration cops come to my family's apartment in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago.  This was when I was like ...
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...
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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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