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First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich : A Son's Memoir by Howard Reich (2006, Hardcover)

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PublisherPublic Affairs

ISBN-101586483625

ISBN-139781586483623

eBay Product ID (ePID)154337594

Product Key Features

Book TitleFirst and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich : a Son's Memoir

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicHolocaust, General

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorHoward Reich

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13.8 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-043797

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal362.196/85210092

SynopsisOn 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. Someone was trying to kill her, "to put a bullet in my head," Sonia told anyone who would listen. Polish and Jewish, Sonia Reich had survived the Holocaust by staying always on the run. 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. Still, his parents told Howard almost nothing about their past. The First and Final Nightmare ... is Reich's moving and bittersweet memoir of growing up in Skokie, discovering an odd and personal American freedom in jazz, and his riveting, revealing investigation into his family's past and the nature of his mother's illness, called late-onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This is a poignant story of a mother and a son, a haunted past, and the irony of what may happen when that often repeated admonition to "never forget" becomes a curse., 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. Someone was trying to kill her, "to put a bullet in my head," Sonia told anyone who would listen. Polish and Jewish, Sonia Reich had survived the Holocaust by staying always on the run. She and Howard's father, Robert, also a Holocaust survivor, had fled to America, moved toChicago, 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. Still, his parents told Howard almost nothing about their past. The First and Final Nightmare ... is Reich's moving and bittersweet memoir of growing up in Skokie, discovering an odd and personal American freedom in jazz, and his riveting, revealing investigation into his family's past and the nature of his mother's illness, called late-onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This is a poignant story of a mother and a son, a haunted past, and the irony of what may happen when that often repeated admonition to "never forget" becomes a curse., A son's memoir of his mother's mental illness reveals the long-hidden horrors of her past and sheds new light on the trauma and persistence of memory., A son's journey to understand his mother's illness also uncovers the long-hidden secrets of her past--and a little-known phenomenon called late-onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, A son's memoir of his mother's mental illness and post traumatic stress disorder stemming from the Holocaust reveals the long-hidden horrors of her past and sheds new light on the trauma and persistence of memory.

LC Classification NumberRC552.P67.R45 2006