And God Saw That It Was Bad

What would have happened if God had heeded one man's prayers in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and had taken on human form to help him? This unusual personal novella by Otto Weiss, dedicated to his wife for her birthday in June 1943 and illustrated by their daughter Helga, then 13, is a unique creative reflection of life in the ghetto suffering, fear and alienation with moments of humanity and hope. The surprising conclusion raises fascinating moral and theological issues. Weiss was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau in October 1944. His wife and daughter survived and retrieved the book.