Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Monday, February 20, 2017

Nazism and Christianity: A Response to Danusha Goska's Essay

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Edwin Woodruff Tait responds to Danusha Goska's essay "Against Identifying Nazism with Christianity."  To read her essay, ple...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Theresa's Blues, Chicago 1969

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I used to go to Theresa's, a bar on the southside of Chicago where the music was always great and the dancing wild.  Most of the time...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Holidays

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When I was a kid, my parents weren't big on celebrations. Birthdays and holidays and anniversaries were no big deal. I would get ma...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

A Valentine's Day Poem and the Story behind It

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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...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

Zbigniew?

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ZBIGNIEW? I was born Zbigniew Guzlowski in a refugee camp in Germany after the war. My father loved that name Zbigniew. When he w...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Against Identifying Nazism with Christianity

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The following is an essay written by Prof. Danusha Goska. On January 4, 2017, news broke that four young Chicagoans kidnapped an 1...
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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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