DAY AFTER NIGHT by Anita Diamant

The setting is August 1945 in Atlit, an internment camp near Haifa for "illegal" Jewish immigrants attempting to escape from Europe to "Zion" (Israel). The four main characters are young women who survived the Holocaust. Shayndel was a Polish resistance fighter; Leonie faced her war horrors in Paris; Tedi was a Dutch Jew who survived by hiding; and Zorah survived a concentration camp. All of them are haunted by their memories and afraid to hope. Their gradual friendship gives them strength to create their new lives. Vivid descriptions of the conditions and characters that I grew to care about brought history to life. This fiction book is based on the true story of 200 prisoners who were rescued from Atlit. JES