Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded
My Parents' Experiences as Polish Slave Laborers in Nazi Germany and Displaced Persons after the War
Thursday, September 28, 2017
My First Death
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I remember the first time I knew there was death in the world. I was in kindergarten at St. Hedwig's, a parochial school on...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Charity in America
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When we first arrived in Chicago in 1952, we were lost. We had spent 6 years in the DP camps in Germany and another year outside of Bu...
Friday, September 15, 2017
First Christmas -- DP Camp
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A Photo from the DP camps -- Bob Jensen, a producer, is making a video presentation of some of my writing from my book about my parents an...
Monday, September 11, 2017
Sept 11, 2001 -- The Short View
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I got a letter on Sept. 12, 2001, from my friend Bill Anderson who tended to take a cynical view of people and government and the human an...
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Echoes of Tattered Tongues Reviewed by the Harvard Review
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Okla Elliot's review of my recent book about my parents and their lives as slave laborers in Germany and refugees in America. Jo...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Sept. 1, 1939 -- Landscape with Dead Horses
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78 years ago on September 1. 1939, the Germans invaded Poland. Their blitzkrieg, their lightning war, came from the air and the sea and t...
Friday, August 18, 2017
My Mother and the War
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My Mother hated the way men talked about the war. It was like they were seeing the conflict, its chaos and brutality, from a great ...
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