Friendship is at the heart of this story, set against the backdrop of a longstanding feud between the Southsiders and Northsiders. Sam "Skitter" Dirks and Tiffany Trayder are determined to bridge the divide that has led to years of animosity. Their journey emphasizes the theme of "Choices," as they work to unite their communities and foster understanding. Through their efforts, they aim to transform the negative perceptions and histories that have defined their lives.
To Do What the Day Demands: The Life of Father Kaspar Stanggassinger is the story of a gentle, holy Redemptorist priest from the German Bavarian Alps. A Catholic educator in the late nineteenth century, Stanggassinger was there for people who needed him day in and day out throughout his short life of just twenty-eight years. This simple seminary prefect was an everyday hero who was loved by everyone who's lives he touched, especially by his students. He was "full of unusual charity...a model for today's youth," according to documentation on his beatification, a statement that's just as true today. The story of Blessed Kaspar Stanggassinger, written in plain language by Otto Weiss, will inspire and even nurture you.
This novella written by Otto Weiss (1898-1944), a Czech Jew, is a unique literary work and historical testimony. The novella was composed in Terezín as a surprise birthday present for his wife, Irena, and was produced with the conspiratorial artistic assistance of his young daughter Helga. Before his deportation to Auschwitz in October 1944, Otto Weiss gave the novella to a relative remaining in the ghetto, who hid it in the Magdeburg barracks. And God Saw That It Was Bad relates the experiences of God, who comes down to Terezín incognito, in human form, as Aaaron Gottesmann, in order to examine the situation personally. God finds his encounter with the reality of this ghetto most disturbing, and through him the author exposes the truth of life in Terezín. The result is a rare, unique literary document from the Holocaust. Weiss was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau in October 1944. His wife and daughter survived and retrieved the book. Foreword and original illustrations are by the author’s daughter, artist, Helga Weissova-Hoškova; Afterword and explanatory notes by historian Ruth Bondy.
