Day After Night, by Anita Diamant

There are so many fiction and non-fiction books that tell the stories of Holocaust survivors that it is a testament to Anita Diamant's creativity and research as a writer that her latest book, Day After Night, brings a fresh awareness of what happened to some of the survivors.

After harrowing ordeals in Europe during World War II, some Jewish survivors are able to make their way to Palestine, only to find themselves imprisoned in British "internment camps." Now held captive by the British political cap on immigration into Palestine, this story follows the lives of four young women who are trying to put the horrors of the past behind them, to assuage the grief of being the sole survivor of their families, and to find a reason to live and perhaps even to hope for a new life in Palestine.

The young women, Tedi from Denmark, Shayndel a Polish Zionist, Zorah a concentration camp survivor, and Leonie a French woman, become unlikely friends as they cope with their individual and collective pain. Each woman hides a secret wound in having survived the hellhole of Hitler's Europe.

While the story contains many unbearably sad stories, there is a thread of hope for these women, that having survived hell on earth, they may one day find peace in their time.