Day After Night, Anita Diamant
Day After Night, Anita Diamant
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Day After Night

Author: Anita Diamant

Narrator: Dagmara Dominczyk

Unabridged: 8 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2009


Synopsis

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Salt Lake Tribune

Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Hebrew Bible in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid characters—young women who escaped to Israel from Nazi Europe—in this intensely dramatic novel.

Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for “illegal” immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp who survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist; Leonie, a Parisian beauty; Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to hope, the four of them 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.

Diamant’s triumphant novel is an unforgettable story of tragedy and redemption that reimagines a singular moment in history with stunning eloquence.

About Anita Diamant

Anita Diamant is the bestselling author of the novels The Boston Girl, The Red Tent, Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown, and Day After Night, and the collection of essays, Pitching My Tent. An award-winning journalist whose work appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine and Parenting, and many others, she is the author of six nonfiction guides to contemporary Jewish life. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her website at AnitaDiamant.com.

About Dagmara Dominczyk

Dagmara Dominczyk's film credits are Rock Star, The Count of Monte Cristo, Kinsey, and Lonely Hearts. On television she's appeared in Five People You Meet in Heaven, and 24. Her Broadway appearences are Closer, Enchanted April, and The Violet Hour.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on August 26, 2019

A beautifully written and hard to put down narrative of four remarkable Jewish girls each of whom survived the Holocaust in Europe in their own way. Imprisoned in Atlit internment camp , near Haifa, in 1945, by the British determined to stop Jewish immigration into the Land of Israel in order to app......more

Goodreads review by Denise on October 11, 2009

I have spent much of 2009 reading excellent novels that relate different perspectives of the horror that was WW II and the effects of the Holocaust on people from different countries. In Sarah's Key, I read what happened at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in France, in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pi......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on November 21, 2018

Uncovering History Through Fiction: My Book(Spoilery) Review of Day After Night I was in an absolute state of glee upon randomly opening up this book to its phenomenal epigraph: This exact phrase is one my mom reads to my sister and I every Shabbat; we know and recite it by heart. I always craved......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on December 29, 2009

Just finished this book and loved it! It was at various times touching, brutal and raw. I have read other memoirs about The Holocaust but this one was different. I had no idea that such a thing as Illegal Immigrant camps existed for survivors of the concentration camps in Isreal after the war. It wa......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on May 01, 2011

After the Ottoman empire lost WWI, the British governed Palestine/Israel. There were larger and larger influxes of European Jews to the area, trying to escape the pogroms and Nazis. To appease the upset Arabs of the region, the British agreed to limit the number of Jewish immigrants. One of the way......more