"Day of Wrath" is the story of Simon and Anna, two young Jews in Germany at the beginning of the persecution and during the early part of the war. They suffered and lost each other and their lives, but they do not move us much by their piteous lot….

The story is simply told and is grim from beginning to end. The relief, not very light, is provided by a woman of the streets, who has the golden heart of all prostitutes when her own hide is not threatened, but she is not an endearing character. This sombre book is a serious and careful piece of work which holds the attention if it does not reach the heights or depths of a great human story…. [But] it may survive when more brilliant and dramatic tales of the war have been lost. It is the failure of the two protagonists, separately and in relation to each other, to come sufficiently alive that lessens the impression the tragic theme should make on the reader.