Prisoner of her past
Discovering a secret Holocaust story
Inspired by Howard’s memoir of the same name, the PBS documentary film traces his journey across the United States, Poland and Ukraine to understand why his 69-year-old mother believes her life is in danger. By finding relatives he didn’t know he had, unearthing buried war-crimes documents and finding witnesses to machine-gun massacres of Jews in his mother’s hometown, Howard pieces together what happened to his mother during the Holocaust. The film has been broadcast more than 500 times in 140-plus markets across the United States and beyond.
What They Say
“Be brave enough to sit for an hour. You will never forget it.”
Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News
“One of the most emotionally wrenching yet rewarding films I have recently seen.”
Huffington Post
