Book Review: Man's Search For Meaning

Number 119104. For the three years Viktor Frankl was a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, this is what he was known as. Upon arriving at the camp, him and the other prisoners had “every possession lost, every value destroyed, suffering from hunger, cold and brutality, hourly expecting extermination” (p 9). Life in the concentration camp was hell on earth. All of the prisoners were literally worked to death or in some cases just sent to death for fun. To the Nazi commanders, the Jews’ lives were expendable and didn’t matter. During his time in the concentration camp, Viktor wrote his book Man’s Search for Meaning, which describes his experiences in the Holocaust and about his search for happiness and meaning.

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They both felt neglected, sometimes abused. Prisoners in Auschwitz were put to work and exterminated if they didn’t comply or were unable to work. I spoke of foster babies before being left behind. They both wanted a place to call home. Viktor’s “father, mother, brother, and his wife died in camps or were sent to the gas ovens, so that, excepting for his sister, his entire family perished in these camps” (p 9). Foster babies sometimes bounce around from house to house until they are eighteen and can legally be their own guardian if they are never adopted. They both endured a situation that drastically affected their life. Holocaust survivors will always remember the horrific practices the Nazis inflicted on them, but they lived to tell the tale. Foster children grow up knowing their biological parents were unsuitable and sometimes they will never know who their biological parents are. They both went through experiences that are preventable. The rise of the Nazi party and the Holocaust could have been stopped long before the existence of concentration camps. Sadly, the foster care system exists because there is a need for it. If all families were prepared and suitable to be parents, there would not be a problem of child abuse, child neglect, or foster care. After going through traumatic experiences, they both have knowledge and wisdom to help others through tough