He speaks harshly about those prisoners who gave up on life, who lost all hope for a future and were inevitably the first to die. They died less because they lacked food or medicine and more because they lacked hope, they lacked a reason to live. On the contrary, Frankl stayed alive and kept hope alive by gathering thoughts about his wife and the prospect of seeing her again, at some point dreaming that after the war he would give lectures about what his experience in Auschwitz had taught him. It is clear that many prisoners who had lost faith in survival no longer had a reason to live. A certain number of prisoners had to leave with each transport. It didn't really matter who, since in any case each of them was nothing more than a number. Upon entering the camp, all their papers were taken from them, along with their belongings.
In January 2006, on the sixty-first anniversary of the liberation from the Auschwitz death camp, where one and a half million people died, nations from around the world observed the first International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
A few months later, they could very well celebrate the anniversary of one of the most enduring texts about that horrific time. "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl, where the author describes his experiences in extermination camps and analyzes his psychotherapeutic method of logotherapy, was first published in 1946.
In September 1942, Frankl and his family were arrested and deported. Frankl spent the next three years in four different concentration camps, stripped of everything that connected him to life, until the day of his liberation.
It is shocking how he clung to life, and to the affirmation of life, and the reasons why he desperately and logically attempted to stay alive are strikingly simple.
Love and knowledge compose the meaning of life for Frankl, and this personal meaning becomes the powerful engine that keeps him alive. And the search for this Meaning is, ultimately, the driving force of everything.
A landmark book for humanity. A book that celebrates humanity.
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He speaks harshly about those prisoners who gave up on life, who lost all hope for a future and were inevitably the first to die. They died less because they lacked food or medicine and more because they lacked hope, they lacked a reason to live. On the contrary, Frankl stayed alive and kept hope alive by gathering thoughts about his wife and the prospect of seeing her again, at some point dreaming that after the war he would give lectures about what his experience in Auschwitz had taught him. It is clear that many prisoners who had lost faith in survival no longer had a reason to live. A certain number of prisoners had to leave with each transport. It didn't really matter who, since in any case each of them was nothing more than a number. Upon entering the camp, all their papers were taken from them, along with their belongings.
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- Author
- Viktor E. Frankl
- Publisher
- PSychogios
- Original Title
- Man's Search for Meaning
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
- -
- Award
- -
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 251
- Release Date
- 9/2010
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789604537457
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