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| Blog Name: |
Lightning and Ashes |
| Url: |
http://lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com/ |
| Language: |
English |
| Topics: |
World War II, poetry, holocaust |
| Description: |
My blog focuses on my parents' experiences as Polish slave Laborers in Nazi Germany and displaced persons after the Second World War.
The blog grew out of my poems about my parents. |
| Popularity: |
38 Followers |
All Souls Day
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 fathers, sisters and brothers, were buried and leave fall flowers and lighted candles there. Some times at night, there would be so many candles burning on and near the graves that you could see the light shining above the cemeteries as you walked back home, even if your home was far away.
The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt: War Through a Woman's Eyes, 1939-1940
I've been looking forward to this memoir by Rulka Langer for a very long time. It is 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 experience in English. The press hopes to publish firsthand accounts, memoirs, poetry, literature
The Men From the East Were Terrible
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 time.My mother was living west of Lvov in eastern Poland when the Russians invaded. I once asked her what that time was like. She said, "The men from the east were terrible--like buffaloes." Tonight in Danville, Virginia, where I live, I will light a candle.
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- Ana Verse
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