Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Everyday I will Remember

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Everyday I Will Remember by Christopher Kuhl This excellent book of poems by Christopher Kuhl about his family and their experiences in...
Monday, August 19, 2019

Packing and Moving

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Packing and Moving It never stops. In the 45 years  Linda  and I have been married, we have moved about 15 times. We’ve moved across ...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

My Summer So Far

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MY SUMMER SO FAR  July 5 There is heat and stillness, and a car’s been parked in front of my house for two weeks. Not moving. Ever....
Monday, July 29, 2019

Speaking of Friends

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Speaking of Friends Have I ever told you about the guy who used to be my best friend when I lived in downstate Illinois? He was an ...
Friday, July 12, 2019

A Funny Story

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My Dziennik Zwiazkowy column.  Please consider leaving a comment at the newspaper’s website, linked below. A FUNNY STORY Our ten-year ...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Praying in Polish

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My Dziennik Zwiazkowy column this week is about Praying in Polish and what this meant to me.   Please consider leaving a comment at the new...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Solitude?

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Someone should write a history of it. Think about it. Probably for the first million plus years that we were here on earth, we were up t...
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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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