Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

The Day My Mother Felt Good

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  The Day My Mother Felt Good Monday she’d been crying a lot thinking she’d never walk again. It was the Jerry Lewis Telethon t...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

My Mother's Dreams in Wartime

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My Mother's Dreams in Wartime The world burns before our eyes, and the smell of everything red is on our skin. ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

A German Soldier Urinates in a Bus

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He stood up and braced himself against a crate and unbuttoned his trousers. He had to relieve himself, and this was a good place. Even th...
Friday, October 10, 2014

Hope

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When my mother was dying, she insisted for a long time that she could beat death. She had survived the murder of her family by the...
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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Village of Cold Houses -- an Excerpt from Road of Bones

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Road of Bones :  That's the title of my forthcoming novel (Červená Barva Press) about two German lovers separated by war.  It's se...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

BE•HOLD: A Performance Film

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I first heard about Janet R. Kirchheimer and her project to make BE*HOLD, a documentary focusing on poetry dealing with the Holocaust, ...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Life Story

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Life Story He was born in a refugee camp in Germany in 1945. He was 1 pound 8 ounces.  He was  a leaf of grass. He was lovely. He...
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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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