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Lightning and Ashes

This blog focuses on my poetry and other writing about my parents' experiences as Polish slave laborers in Nazi Germany and displaced persons in the US after the war.
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All Souls Day

Oct 31, 2009
When I was a child growing up in Chicago, All Souls Day wasn't a big deal. My parents would tell me stories about what it was like in Poland when they were kids. People, my mother would say, would walk to the cemeteries where their mothers and...

The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt: War Through a Woman's Eyes, 1939-1940

Oct 6, 2009
I've been looking forward to this memoir by Rulka Langer for a very long time. It's the first publication of Aquila Polonica, a new press started by Terry Tegnazian and Stefan Mucha dedicated to publishing works about the Polish World War II...

The Men From the East Were Terrible

Sep 17, 2009
70 years ago today the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east and divided up the country with the Nazis. In some places in Poland, they light candles and put them in the windows to remember the dead and the suffering of the living during that...

Waiting to Be Heard: The Polish Christian Experience Under Nazi and Stalinist Oppression 1939-1955

Sep 16, 2009
I first met Dr. Bogusia Wojciechowska over the internet about five years ago. Someone sent me a note about her and her work, and I got in touch with her as soon as I read it. She was working on an extensive research project to document the lives of...

Poland to Buffalo Through World War II

Sep 14, 2009
  I recently received the following information regarding the upcoming conference (Oct. 3-4) sponsored by the Andy Golebiowski and the Polish Legacy Project of Buffalo, NY: Untold Stories Come Alive This year marks the 70th anniversary of the...


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