Fiction Pick of the Week: Day after Night

Day After Night by Anita Diamant 2009

At the end of WWII many of those surviving the horrors of the war in Europe tried to reach the promised land – Palestine. The British set up internment camps, surrounded by barbed wire, to hold the waiting refugees. Day After Night is based on the true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. The story follows four young women, all of whom survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist, Leonie, a beautiful Parisian girl, Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew, and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Bonded by unspeakable memories and losses Shayndel, Leonie, Tedi, and Zorah befriend one another as they start their new lives in Palestine.