Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Oral History -- Visiting the Old Neighborhood East of Humboldt Park, Chicago

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Forgotten Chicago historian Daniel Pogorzelski and I did a tour of some of my old neighborhood around Humboldt Park this last May. I ta...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

HOW MY PARENTS MET: A SURVIVORS' STORY

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My parents didn’t much talk about their relationship or their love for each other or how they met.   To tell the truth, they weren...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Refugee Camp 1948

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My tweet poem was featured in @escarp, the twitter poetry venue. Refugee Camp, 1948/ I remember only a little/ the grayness of everythi...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

SUITCASE CHARLIE 99 cents!

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SUITCASE CHARLIE KINDLE SALE My Readers' Favorite Award Winning crime novel is on sale from now until the 4th of July. The...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Leonard Lopate Interview

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Dear Friends, My recent National Public Radio interview with on the Leonard Lopate Show is now available as a podcast online.  We talk...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

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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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Reading at the Holocaust Educators Conference at Lynchburg College

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Holocaust Educators Conference at Lynchburg College I'll be reading poems and some prose pieces from my new book ...
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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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