Man's Search for Meaning

Do furnaces, gas chambers, and death have meaning? Victor Frankl’s poignant novel reveals how he discovered that through suffering man is made better and richer. He describes how prisoners, including himself, journeyed through the psychological phases of shock, apathy, and liberation from Hitler’s death camps.
Dr. Frankl experiences shock when he first enters one of the camps. “Suddenly a cry broke from the ranks of anxious passengers, ‘There is a sign, Auschwitz!’” Dr. Frankl wrote. Everyone on the train felt this shock all at once. They were scared of not just gas chambers. No, they were scared of crematories and massacres as well. Not only that, the train slowly inched its way into the camp. Dr. Frankl wrote that the train ac...