The Days Before Tomorrow

By: Mark Hass

A teenage boy and his older sister in a small Ukrainian village desperately want revenge for a vicious anti-Semitic attack on their family. WW Il begins, thwarting their plans, but they don't forget. When the war ends, they know what they must do, but doing it will mean sacrificing their future.

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Book Description

The story unfolds over 15 years in the small towns of Western Ukraine, the urban sophistication of 1930s Krakow, and a wartime Soviet Union. A flawed, but loving Jewish family struggles with daily indignities — and its own betrayals and secrets — until WW II begins and they are shattered.

To survive, Wolchi goes to work in a Russian war factory, and Leja joins partisans fighting the Nazis. When they returned home at war’s end, hardened and pragmatic, the evil that murdered their family members was still walking the streets. That’s when they knew: Vengeance was the key to their future.

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