Man’s search for meaning: An introduction
Man’s Search For Meaning is a book, based on the real life experience of Viktor E.Frankl, who was a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2. Like so many German and East European Jews who thought themselves secure, Frankl flung into the network of concentration and extermination camps and he survived. He believed that the reason he kept himself alive was that he stuck to hope, keeping in mind the sense of satisfaction he will get when he’ll meet his dear ones, once he is out of that place and being a psychiatrist, he imagined how he’ll be the one lecturing people about how he survived in such an exhausting environment. He believed …show more content…
It deals with the multitude of the small torments, This book is an inside story yof the concentration camp, told by one of its survivors.
Most of the former prisoners refuses to talk about their experiences at the concentration camp since it is nothing to be talked with ecstasy about and because they feel that it’s of absolute no use to tell other people, who have no connection with the concentration camp about how they felt, and the others who were there, already knows about it.
Frankl was the an ordinary prisoner at the camp, not a psychiatrist, or even as a doctor, except for the last few weeks. But a few of his colleagues were lucky enough to be employed in poorly heated first-aid posts applying bandages made of scraps of waste paper. But his job was digging and laying tracks for railway station. He was rewarded with a gift of so called “premium coupons” . These were issued by the construction firm to which they were practically sold as slaves: the firm paid the camp authorities a fixed price per day, per prisoner. The coupons cost the firm fifty pfennigs each and could be exchanged for twelve cigarettes. But more important, the cigarettes could be exchanged for twelve soups and twelve soups were often a very real respite from starvation. Though, this privilege was reserved for the capos who had their assured quota of weekly
Man’s Search For Meaning is a book, based on the real life experience of Viktor E.Frankl, who was a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2. Like so many German and East European Jews who thought themselves secure, Frankl flung into the network of concentration and extermination camps and he survived. He believed that the reason he kept himself alive was that he stuck to hope, keeping in mind the sense of satisfaction he will get when he’ll meet his dear ones, once he is out of that place and being a psychiatrist, he imagined how he’ll be the one lecturing people about how he survived in such an exhausting environment. He believed …show more content…
It deals with the multitude of the small torments, This book is an inside story yof the concentration camp, told by one of its survivors.
Most of the former prisoners refuses to talk about their experiences at the concentration camp since it is nothing to be talked with ecstasy about and because they feel that it’s of absolute no use to tell other people, who have no connection with the concentration camp about how they felt, and the others who were there, already knows about it.
Frankl was the an ordinary prisoner at the camp, not a psychiatrist, or even as a doctor, except for the last few weeks. But a few of his colleagues were lucky enough to be employed in poorly heated first-aid posts applying bandages made of scraps of waste paper. But his job was digging and laying tracks for railway station. He was rewarded with a gift of so called “premium coupons” . These were issued by the construction firm to which they were practically sold as slaves: the firm paid the camp authorities a fixed price per day, per prisoner. The coupons cost the firm fifty pfennigs each and could be exchanged for twelve cigarettes. But more important, the cigarettes could be exchanged for twelve soups and twelve soups were often a very real respite from starvation. Though, this privilege was reserved for the capos who had their assured quota of weekly