Prisoner of Her Past: A Son's Memoir Greece In the Garden of Beasts

In the Garden of Beasts

and memory―Muslim as well as Jewish―in the post-war years

Among those fighting their brutal Nazi occupiers are two Jewish sisters

constantly seeking answers from God for relentless tragedy

Prisoner of Her Past: A Son's Memoir Greece In the Garden of BeastsBy Howard Reich Until February 15, 2001, Howard Reichs mother, Sonia, had managed to keep almost everything about her experience of the Holocaust from her son. That night, she packed some clothes and fled her house in Skokie, Illinois, convinced that someone was trying to kill her. This was the first indication that she was suffering from late onset post traumatic stress disorder, a little known condition that can emerge decades after the initial