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DESCRIPTION:The documentary &ldquo\;Prisoner of Her Past&rdquo\; will be 
 screened at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois meeting on Sunda
 y\, June 24\, 2012\, in Temple Beth Israel\, 3601 W. Dempster St.\, Skok
 ie. Registration and refreshments will begin at 1:30 p.m. and the progra
 m will start at 2 p.m.\nThe film&rsquo\;s producer-writer-narrator\, How
 ard Reich\, the Chicago Tribune&rsquo\;s jazz critic\, will comment on t
 he story of his mother\, Sonia\, a Jew from Poland\, who survived the Ho
 locaust as a child by running and hiding.\nDecades later\, believing tha
 t the world had conspired to execute her\, Sonia Reich fled her Skokie h
 ouse one night\, suitcase in hand\, insisting that someone was going to 
 shoot her in the head. In the documentary film\, Howard Reich explains h
 ow he returned to Dubno (now in Ukraine) to try to find answers to quest
 ions about his mother&rsquo\;s past that had ultimately led to her late-
 onset post-traumatic stress disorder.\nThe film ventures beyond Sonia Re
 ich's story\, to show what can be done to help traumatized children toda
 y. It looks in particular at young victims of Hurricane Katrina in New O
 rleans.\nHoward Reich first wrote about his mother in a Chicago Tribune 
 article in 2003 and then published a book about her and his research int
 o her past\, &ldquo\;The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich\,&rdqu
 o\; in 2006. His documentary film came out in 2010. For more information
  about the film\, see http://prisonerofherpast.kartemquin.com/.\nThe JGS
 I meeting facilities at Temple Beth Israel will open at 12:30 p.m. to ac
 commodate members/guests who want to use genealogy library materials\, g
 et help with genealogy websites on the Internet\, or ask genealogical qu
 estions before the main program begins. For more information\, visit htt
 p://www.jewishgen.org/jgsi or phone (312) 666-0100.\nFollow JGSI on Twit
 ter\nA Twitter account has been established by the Jewish Genealogical S
 ociety of Illinois. Members and others who &ldquo\;follow&rdquo\; it (@J
 GSofIllinois) will receive notices of coming JGSI meetings and special e
 vents\, and reminders of resources available on the JGSI website. Retwee
 ts about various Jewish genealogy topics of interest to members will als
 o be shared by @JGSofIllinois. &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\
 ;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Anyone with an email address can se
 t up a Twitter account at https://twitter.com/ to receive these tweets f
 rom JGSI. Once an account has been set up\, just type JGSofIllinois into
  the Twitter search box\, hit enter\, and then click on the &ldquo\;JGS 
 of Illlinois&rdquo\; link atop one of the tweets. Finally\, click on the
  blue &ldquo\;Follow&rdquo\; button.  &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\
 ;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Another way of starting to r
 eceive the JGSI tweets is to go to the JGSI website home page at http://
 www.jewishgen.org/jgsi/ and click on the &ldquo\;Follow @JGSofIllinois&r
 dquo\; button. That will open a separate website where non-Twitter users
  can click on the orange &ldquo\;Sign Up&rdquo\; link to start a Twitter
  account.
URL:http://skokie.patch.com/events/jewish-genealogical-society-of-illinoi
 s-8c47e961
SUMMARY:Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois
LOCATION:Temple Beth Israel: 3601 Dempster St\, Skokie\, IL
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