Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Talking about Home at the AWP 2012

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One of the things that immigrant poets are always writing about is home.  We write about the homes we left behind, imagine what they were li...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Valentine's Day: A World War II Love Story

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My parents met in a concentration camp in Germany toward the end of World War II. My mom had been brought to Germany by the Nazis to...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

The Day My Mother Died

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My mother died six years ago, January 27, 2006. She died in a hospice in Sun City, Arizona. It was a beautiful place, out in the desert, c...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Photographs by German Soldiers

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Recently, I came across a site that features thousands of photographs taken by German Soldiers as they invaded Poland and spread across t...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

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Recently, I watched " Imaginary Witness ," a terrific documentary about how Hollywood has depicted the Holocaust, and even though ...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Two Lives Shaped by World War Two: A Video

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Recently, I was invited to do a poetry reading at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York. The reading, titled "Two Lives Shaped by Wo...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Two Lives Shaped by World War Two: A Reading

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LIGHTNING and ASHES: Two Lives Shaped by World War II ->Reading, Book Signing, Discussion<- Born in a refugee camp after W...
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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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