dr. david rosenberg of highland park meet her. sonya wright had developed post-traumatic stress disorder 56 years after surviving the holocaust. there is a fairly typical pattern that consists of a person coming to see the psychiatrist really in patterns. worn down. by months and years of being unable to sleep well just seeing someone dressed in a uniform might cause this person to react as if this is the ss coming to get them. 1941, sonya was a 10 year-old girl when she escaped through a window like this one she was one of the few who avoided these killing fields 12,000 executed from the village. howard stepped in as a journalist and traveled here to learn about the missing years from his mother's childhood. she was basically running through the forest digging for food on farms and subsisting in this existence for those years and somehow she came out of the end of it all as a person but quite damaged psychologically. a haunted child with weis and frostbite she was on the run for two years and never learned to trust anyone finally