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Day After Night: A Novel by Anita Diamant
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Day After Night: A Novel (edition 2009)

by Anita Diamant

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Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.… (more)
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Title:Day After Night: A Novel
Authors:Anita Diamant
Info:Scribner (2009), Hardcover, 304 pages
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Day After Night by Anita Diamant

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    The River Midnight by Lilian Nattel (BookshelfMonstrosity)
    BookshelfMonstrosity: While The River Midnight occurs immediately prior to WWII and Day After Night immediately after, both are emotional stories of Jewish women struggling with their situations; both also depict a sense of female community within a larger group of outsiders.… (more)
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    Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian (BookshelfMonstrosity)
    BookshelfMonstrosity: In spite of the end of World War II, the survivors in these two bleak novels are still feeling its effects as they struggle with emotional fallout and fight for survival in their new situations.
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It is 1945 and the war has just ended. Those released from the concentration camps must now decide what the remainder of their lives, devoid of loved ones and homes, will be. This is the story of some of those displaced women who opt to go to Israel, which is being governed by the British. They find themselves in another camp, and although this one is not the cruel and deadly ilk of the ones they have already known, it is still ringed with barbed wire and it still feels like a prison.

The story centers on four of the women and explores their backstories as well as their experiences in adjusting to a new life in Zion. It is the best Diamant I have found since falling in love with The Red Tent, which I count as her signature work. I did feel involved with each of the women, mourn their losses, and care about their futures. It was a quick read with a satisfying ending. What you want most for these women is a chance to live a life of happiness that will negate some of the pain and horror that they have experienced in their young lives. The first step for them is being able to connect with one another and those connections are believable in Diamant’s hands.

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  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
adult fiction; historical drama. Seemed to be well written; just wasn't the type of story I wanted to hear at the time. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
What I loved most about this book was the way the characters were introduced and then slowly how their lives were revealed glimpse by glimpse, much in the same way that we actually come to know people in real life. The story is sad and yet harbours faint hope. ( )
  ColourfulThreads | Feb 18, 2021 |
Interesting historical novel about what happened to the lucky few who survived the Holocaust and managed to smuggle themselves to "Palestine". Under British control the refugees were, again, held in internment camps albeit under more humane conditions. The continuing anti-semitism of the Brits is explored, as is the difficulty many had readapting to a semblance of life. An afterward makes the delineation between true history and fiction somewhat confusing. The story is interesting, the writing is very basic and flat. ( )
  Rdra1962 | Aug 1, 2018 |
Very interesting. ( )
  Siubhan | Feb 28, 2018 |
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Know that every human being must cross a very narrow bridge. What is most important is not to be overcome by fear.

Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav, 1772-1810
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In memory
of my grandfather Abe Mordechai Ejbuszyc
and my uncle Henri Roger Ejbuszyc,
victims of the Holocaust
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The nightmares made their rounds hours ago. (Prologue)
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Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.

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Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than 200 prisoners from the Atlit internment camp - a prison for illegal immigrants run by the British military off the coast of the Mediterranean, south of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp with profoundly different stories.

All of them survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist; Leonie, a Parisian beauty; Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Haunted by the unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, Shayndel, Leonie, Tedi and Zorah find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experiences even as they confront the challenge of recreating themselves in a strange new country.

This is an unforgettable story of tragedy and redemption, a novel that re-imagines a moment in history with such stunning eloquence that we are haunted and moved by every devastating detail. Day After Night is a triumphant work of fiction.
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