john guzlowski
- Location
- Danville, Virginia, USA
- Birthday
- June 22
- Bio
- I was born in a refugee camp in Germany after World War II, and came with my Polish Catholic parents Jan and Tekla and my sister Donna to the United States as Displaced Persons in 1951. My 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. I write about these people.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Stacy Szymaszek
May 23, 2012 11:19AM - Give Peace a Chance--It's
cheaper
May 20, 2012 01:00PM - Call for Translators
May 08, 2012 08:43AM - Time Between Trains by Anthony
Bukoski
April 19, 2012 03:31PM - Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012
April 18, 2012 11:07AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Nobody wants to take
responsibility for the war but
finally
it's my war and
yours…”
May 20, 2012 03:32PM - “Thanks for telling me
about visiting buchenwald. My
dad was
there, a prisoner.
Ye…”
April 18, 2012 04:38PM - “good daughter, martha's
book blue positive it
terrific--lots
of poems about
pregn…”
March 17, 2012 01:45AM - “Thanks, John. You sound
like you have a good
soul.”
March 10, 2012 05:18PM - “Daisy, yes, it's Walden
Pond on a hot early
September
Saturday.”
February 12, 2012 10:33PM
John guzlowski's Links
- Editor’s Pick
- 2141 Views
- 53 Comments
The Day My Mother Died
JANUARY 14, 2012 7:59PM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 1232 Views
- 27 Comments
For My Father, Who Survived Nazism
JUNE 19, 2009 12:06PM EDT
- 2481 Views
- 25 Comments
What the War Taught Her
DECEMBER 23, 2008 3:50PM EST
- 1693 Views
- 23 Comments
A Memorial Day Letter From Uncle Buddy
MAY 23, 2009 5:51PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 2205 Views
- 24 Comments
The Death of Sylvia Plath's Son
MARCH 23, 2009 10:18AM EDT
- 683 Views
- 11 Comments
My Parents After the War and the Camps
FEBRUARY 25, 2009 7:16PM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 1063 Views
- 19 Comments
The Deaths of the Writers We Love
JANUARY 27, 2009 2:47PM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 2081 Views
- 19 Comments
Christmas and Forgiveness
DECEMBER 14, 2008 4:25PM EST
- 899 Views
- 17 Comments
Valentine's Day: Why My Mom Stayed with My Dad
FEBRUARY 11, 2010 2:50PM EST
- 839 Views
- 19 Comments
Anne Frank's Birthday, June 12
JUNE 11, 2011 10:00AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1007 Views
- 11 Comments
1968: A True Confession
NOVEMBER 26, 2008 11:29AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 1526 Views
- 15 Comments
Buchenwald: Working
DECEMBER 4, 2008 10:25PM EST
- 1494 Views
- 22 Comments
Blogging for Dollars!--A Self-Interview
JUNE 1, 2009 11:49AM EDT
- 1041 Views
- 11 Comments
Why My Mother Stayed with My Father
JUNE 18, 2010 11:15AM EDT
- 1179 Views
- 16 Comments
Ultimate Meaning in the Universe?
JANUARY 16, 2009 5:51PM EST
- 1055 Views
- 15 Comments
10 Really Weird Facts
FEBRUARY 15, 2010 8:41PM EST
- 1624 Views
- 10 Comments
The German--A Short Story about the War
MARCH 22, 2010 2:52PM EDT
- 1277 Views
- 8 Comments
The Nazis, Christmas, and Forgiveness: A Repost
DECEMBER 23, 2009 10:19AM EST
- 511 Views
- 10 Comments
Years Later We Would Remember
APRIL 9, 2010 10:23AM EDT
- 401 Views
- 13 Comments
Last Heart Attack Update
MAY 24, 2010 2:09PM EDT
- 1134 Views
- 9 Comments
Lullaby of the Trains: The Gypsy Children
JULY 10, 2010 3:08PM EDT
- 847 Views
- 8 Comments
Heaven
DECEMBER 1, 2008 12:33AM EST
- 4239 Views
- 24 Comments
Have You Had a Brush with Fame?
FEBRUARY 10, 2009 5:05PM EST
- 1014 Views
- 15 Comments
Kritya: Recent Persian Poems
JUNE 5, 2009 11:13AM EDT
- 726 Views
- 12 Comments
The Short View and the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 7:20AM EDT
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