Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Friday, May 27, 2022

THIS IS NOT NORMAL

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 THIS IS NOT NORMAL My daughter Lillian is an elementary school principal.  She wrote something a couple days ago in response to the school ...
Friday, May 20, 2022

WHAT THE SISTERS TAUGHT ME

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WHAT THE SISTERS TAUGHT US I received a letter recently from a fellow who frequently reads my columns in the Dziennik Zwiazkowy.  He was dis...
Friday, April 29, 2022

The War Goes On

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THE WAR GOES ON   Like you, I’m tired of hearing about Putin’s war against Ukraine.  It started two months ago on Monday, February 21, and e...
Friday, March 25, 2022

WAR IS HELL

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WAR IS HELL You’ve probably heard that quote before a million times. You’ve probably been hearing it a lot recently on the news and from you...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Pre-Post-Apocalyptic Blues

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 Pre-Post-Apocalyptic Blues Watching the news recently about Putin’s war against Ukraine,I can’t help feeling that we are all fascinated wit...
Friday, March 4, 2022

War and Peace

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War and Peace We’ve all been following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. My 12 year-old granddaughter is following it, and my 97 year-old mot...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Maus and Me

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 Maus and Me You’ve probably been hearing a lot about Art Spiegelman’s book Maus recently.  His graphic memoir about the Holocaust was banne...
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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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