DAY AFTER NIGHT

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This is Anita Diamant's fictionalized story told through the eyes of four young women who survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist: Leonie, a Parisian beauty; Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. The year is 1945. The women form a friendship in the Atlit internment camp for "illegal" immigrants. Atlit is off the coast of the Mediterranean, south of Haifa and was run by the British military.
I enjoyed and recommend this book to those wanting to dig deeper into that period in history. My regret was not learning more about the character's lives during the war years. The reader does get a sampling but yearns to know more.

posted by rapa

I really enjoyed this book. I also recommend it highly.

posted by lovesreading
over 2 years ago

Lordy Rapa, you present such a compelling view of your reads...I'll have to sell the tractor to buy the books.

posted by slopok
over 2 years ago

I got it on my e-reader for my next trip next week.

posted by mudqueen
over 2 years ago

Glad you liked the book so much, rapa! I felt the same way about wanting to know more about the girls' experiences in the Holocaust of Europe--at first. But I think it might have too easily tipped into the maudlin if Diamant gave us more of the horror. As it is, we got inklings of it, but got to concentrate on the dawning of hope that was opening for them in "Eretz Yisrael." I think that's what contributed to making the book so different from the normal WWII Holocaust narratives.

posted by Moseyer
over 2 years ago

I loved Anita Diamant's other books, The Red Tent and another with the word Dogtown in the title. If you want that one and search Dogtown I'm sure you'll come up with it. They were both wonderful so I am looking forward to reading Day after Night, which is in my TBR pile.

posted by litllincombs
over 2 years ago

While fixing supper tonight, turned on PBS radio. They had an evening of Yiddish music. Wonderful! I bounced around with the beat remembering the music and dancing talked about in DAY AFTER NIGHT .

posted by rapa
over 2 years ago

Sounds like one I'm going to have to make time for.

posted by datsunlvr
over 2 years ago

I'm half way through this book right now... it's been slow going and I have to keep rereading the cover synopsis to keep the girls straight... lol...

Haven't had the time to really sit for a long time reading it this week so it's only a few pages at a time... I also want to know more about their war years and am disappointed to learn there won't be more in the book about that.... I read The Red Tent years ago and remember liking it as well.

Made 16 stollens today with my sis and granddaughter and put half of them in the freezer for later in the month... the others go out tomorrow as gifts to kids and friends...

posted by carci
over 2 years ago

carci, like you I flipped to the book cover umpteen times during the read to refresh my memory on which was the prostitute, which was the concentration camp survivor, etc. It was not an easy read for me but made me count my blessings.

posted by rapa
over 2 years ago