Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Saturday, January 28, 2017

GREEN CARDS

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Green Cards America has always been hard on refugees. We were Polish refugees who waited for 6 years while America decided if it would t...
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Thursday, January 26, 2017

72nd Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

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On January 27, 1945, the Russian army came upon Auschwitz and its various camps and subcamps.   What they found was terrible. ...
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Friday, January 13, 2017

Remembering My Mother

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My mother died 11 years ago this January.  She died in a hospice in Sun City, Arizona.   When she died, we had her funeral service...
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Sunday, January 8, 2017

Echoes of Tattered Tongues -- A Review

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A Review from Polish American Journal: With an unapologetic rawness, John Guzlowski gives us his family’s memoirs in a mix of poetr...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Christmas and Forgiveness

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I once gave a talk about my parents and their experiences with the Nazis to  Narci   Drossos ’s class at  Valdosta  High School in Georgia. ...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Death and Poetry

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My poem "Death and Poetry" is the featured poem of the day at Rattle today.  The tit...
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Sunday, December 11, 2016

My Father's Birthday

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My Father's Birthday My dad was born on Dec. 11, 1920, in Poland on a farm north of Poznan.  By the...
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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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