A Poem for Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 11

A Poem for Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 11

 Below, for your thoughtful reading, is a poem by John Guzlowski, a Polish-American who was born in a refugee camp in Germany after World War II and arrived with his family as a Displaced Person in 1951.  He writes that his parents weren’t Jews.  They weren’t in the Holocaust.  They were Polish Catholics who were taken to Germany to work as slave laborers in the concentration camps there.  “They suffered terribly,” he says, “and saw terrible things done to the people they loved.  My mother’s family was decimated.  Her mother, her sister, and her sister’s baby were killed outright by the Nazis.  My mother’s two aunts were taken to Auschwitz with their Jewish husbands and died there. Continue reading A Poem for Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 11