After the End

For Sarah Morgenstern, Liberation Day doesn’t mark the end of World War II. Nor does VE Day. Rather, these milestones signal merely a new phase of wartime existence, launching Sarah on a quest to find what might remain of her family and her home—and the life she knew before the Nazis took everything. After the End opens on May 5, 1945, three days after the 82nd Airborne and the U.S. 8th Infantry Division liberated Wöbbelin concentration camp. With nothing to her name but the filthy, raggedy...