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John Guzlowski

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7 POEMS  >

7 POEMS  >

A Story My Mother Heard in a Slave Labor Camp
Unloading a Train

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My Mother's First Winter in Germany
What My Parents Taught Me About Life
Winters in Buchenwald
Death March, Spring 1945
A German Soldier Tells My Father About the War

Buchenwald Camp Main Gate
“Jedem das Seine” is the German translation of the Latin legal maxim suum cuique, meaning “to each his own” or “to each what he deserves.”

MEMOIR

MEMOIR

Buchenwald concentration camp map  (image source © Arolsen Archives, 2021). Note: red numbers running across the top (1-5) and the right side (6-7), including black dash lines, were overlaid to link poems. The words "Poems" and the "Memoir" placard and house outline graphics were also added. These elements are not part of the original document. Image source: "Buchenwald Camp Main Gate," Black and white photograph, April 6, 1955. Photographer: Kümpfel. Bundesarchiv, https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/ghdi:image-5174. Family photo in scroll-over used with author's permission: Guzlowski family at New Year's Eve celebration in a Polish dancehall in Chicago (1950s).

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