Victor Frankl was a psychiatrist in practice in Vienna before World War II; he survived many years Auschwitz and other death camps. In Man’s Searching for Meaning he manages to convey his experience of living inside one of these death camps from the unique perspective an inmate who is also a healer, ever watchful and caring towards those around him. From his descriptions, we know that he live through an extended horrific nightmare that we do not even want to imagine. We can really only bear this because Frankl is with us along the way, helping us to see what he saw and to follow his desire to heal fellow inmates by noticing the details that point to this person's hope or despair. His ability to continuously observe and synthesize these experiences
