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By Howard Reich Released in 2010 and first broadcast on PBS in 2011, “Prisoner of Her Past” continues to reach audiences around the world. A few weeks ago, WTTW-Ch. 11 – Chicago’s PBS station – presented its 13th annual broadcast in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The film has become an integral part of the city’s… Continue reading ‘Prisoner of Her Past’ still going strong

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Six years after it was completed and five years after its first broadcast, “Prisoner of Her Past” came home to Skokie, where the story originated. “Conversations with Ed Tracy,” an ongoing series at the Skokie Theatre (conversationswithedtracy.com), featured a screening of the film, dialogue with Tracy and questions and commentary from a packed house on… Continue reading “Prisoner of Her Past” circles back to Skokie

Published on April 21, 2016 by Howard Reich “Prisoner of Her Past” has played Toronto during past film festivals, but the documentary returned to the Ontario capital for a remarkable occasion: Holocaust Education Week 2015. This annual, citywide event features lectures, concerts, panel discussions and films, this year’s proceedings focused on “Liberation: Aftermath & Rebirth.” The… Continue reading “Prisoner of Her Past” back in Toronto

On Holocaust Remembrance Day (May 5),  WTTW-Channel 11 will present its 6th annual broadcast of “Prisoner of Her Past. ” The film will air at 10pm.    Written by Emmy-award winning Chicago Tribune journalist, Howard Reich, the film documents Howard’s quest to discover why his mother is reliving her Holocaust past.    To date, “Prisoner… Continue reading Sixth Annual Broadcast on WTTW on May 5

Emmy-Award winning Chicago Tribune journalist and author, Howard Reich, will be the special guest at “Conversations with Ed Tracy” at the Skokie Theatre on Wednesday, April 20. This program is part of a new monthly interview series hosted by Ed Tracy featuring authors and influential leaders in the arts, media and business. At 1:30pm, Kartemquin… Continue reading Howard Reich joins “Conversations with Ed Tracy” on April 20

For the fifth year in a row, WTTW Channel 11in Chicago is broadcasting “Prisoner of Her Past” in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Week. The film traces Chicago Tribune journalist Howard Reich’s journey to uncover his mother’s hidden Holocaust childhood – and why she is reliving it. “Prisoner of Her Past” remains quite active: Howard recently… Continue reading 5th Anniversary Broadcast on WTTW

On April 16, 2007, a student at Virginia Tech University india viagra generic safe killed 32 people and injured 18 in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. That tragic event formed the backdrop for a three-day “Prisoner of Her Past” residency at the Blacksburg, Va., campus, where I showed the film and discussed its… Continue reading Examining Trauma at Virginia Tech

Insights on the meanings of “Prisoner of Her Past” have come from many sources, and this week they were delivered by some very savvy psychiatrists. During a Florida tour organized by Dr. Marc Agronin, we presented the film at the annual meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, in Orlando on March 17. After the… Continue reading Revelations In Florida

“Prisoner of Her Past” begins its fifth year going remarkably strong, with broadcasts and events scheduled throughout 2014. It all began as a Chicago Tribune article in 2003, evolved into a book in 2006 and became a documentary film in 2010 – and the story shows no signs of slowing down. The audience only seems to… Continue reading A big year in 2014

The past couple of years have been brisk in the life of “Prisoner of Her Past.” Among the highlights: Oct. 8-9, 2012 at Westtown School, West Chester, Pa. Established in 1799, this Quaker school presented me during a two-day residency in which several hundred students watched the film, with a robust Q-and-A that followed. The next… Continue reading We’ve been busy

Prisoner of Her Past plays a little differently in front of every audience, but nowhere like in New Orleans. Though only a brief – if significant – sequence of the film was shot in the Crescent City, the audience embraced that passage. In the Q-and-A session following the screening at the National World War II Museum… Continue reading Returning to New Orleans

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A critical new audience has opened up for “Prisoner of Her Past” in the past several weeks: students. Though we had shown the film once before to teenagers – at Northwestern University’s National High School – the scope and breadth of our student audience expanded dramatically last month. generic viagra online india “Prisoner” has played to… Continue reading Reaching Students Where They Live

I had the pleasure of being the guest of the Kos International Health Film Festival for the Greek premiere of Prisoner of Her Past on September 5th this year, on the island of Kos. There were about 60 people at the screening – a very respectable number for an out-of-competition film at such a faraway… Continue reading “Prisoner of Her Past” Premieres in Greece

One question kept coming up during the Warsaw premiere of “Prisoner of Her Past,” Oct. 18 in an exhibition space near the Jewish Historical Institute. Though audience members in the SRO crowd phrased it in different ways, they kept returning to the same motif: Why didn’t my mother talk about her Holocaust trauma after the… Continue reading A Haunting Theme in Warsaw

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I’m sorry to say that George Kennedy, a personal hero of mine and a champion of “Prisoner of Her Past,” died Sept. 1 at age 86. George, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, was one of the first people to support the film, and he appeared on the panel following our premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center,… Continue reading Hope, Optimism, and Courage

Until Tuesday night (July 13), I wondered whether “Prisoner of Her Past” would mean anything to teenagers. Could kids in 21st Century America relate to the story of my mother, who is reliving traumas she experienced in Eastern Europe in WWII? It all seemed a bit remote. But the youngsters who crowded into the McCormick Tribune Center… Continue reading Galvanized by Students

More than 400 people poured into the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove on Monday night (July 12, 2010), to catch “Prisoner of Her Past.” Just seeing the film’s title sprawled across this theater’s glorious, glittering marquee was a thrill. You don’t encounter movie houses like this very often anymore. The historic theater, which opened in 1928, has been… Continue reading Joy at the Tivoli

The long and thrilling process of making “Prisoner of Her Past,” which began in 2004, has ended. And the journey to bring the film to audiences around the world has begun. With this first blog entry, I’ll recap where we’ve shown the film so far, as we prepare to take “Prisoner of Her Past” wherever there’s… Continue reading The Film Takes Flight

Critically acclaimed as “one of the most emotionally wrenching yet rewarding films” by the Huffington Post, Prisoner of Her Past explores a topic virtually untouched in popular culture and scientific literature: the delayed effects of childhood trauma. This new film from Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Joanna Rudnick, and Zak Piper –  with Chicago Tribune columnist… Continue reading Now screening worldwide