The first and final nightmare of Sonia Reich : a son's memoir / Howard Reich.
"On the evening of February 15, 2001, Sonia Reich, Howard Reich's mother, packed some clothes into two brown shopping bags, put on her gray winter coat, locked the door to her home in Skokie, Illinois, and fled.
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Public Affairs,
[2006]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "On the evening of February 15, 2001, Sonia Reich, Howard Reich's mother, packed some clothes into two brown shopping bags, put on her gray winter coat, locked the door to her home in Skokie, Illinois, and fled. "Polish and Jewish, Sonia Reich had survived the Holocaust by always staying on the run. "The First and Final Nightmare ... is Reich's memoir of growing up in Skokie and discovering an odd and personal American freedom in jazz. Although PTSD is often thought of as an illness afflicting veterans coming home from war or other immediate trauma survivors, Reich learned that it can hit the unfortunate decades later."--BOOK JACKET. It's also a riveting, revealing investigation into his family's past and the nature of his mother's illness, called late-onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, about which there is too little knowledge and too little medical literature. She and Howard's father, Robert, also a Holocaust survivor, had fled to America, moved to Chicago, and raised their young son to tell no one that they were Jewish. It was only after moving to Skokie, a town filled with Holocaust survivors, that his family would live as Jews. Someone was trying to kill her, "to put a bullet in my head." Sonia told anyone who would listen.". Still, his parents told Howard almost nothing about their past.". |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193) and index. |