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Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity.
In the latest edition of the book, there are 53 responses given from various people, up from 10 in the original edition. [4] Among respondents to the question are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, former Nazis and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet.
Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) [1] was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, [2] who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. [3] Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology ...
The existence of specific lessons to be learned from the Holocaust is cited as a justification for Holocaust education, but challenged by some critics. [5] There is a tension between the argument that the Holocaust was a unique event in history and that it has lessons that could be applied to other situations. [6]
The Reader (German: Der Vorleser) is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in 1995.The story is a parable dealing with the difficulties post-war German generations have had comprehending the Holocaust; Ruth Franklin writes that it was aimed specifically at the generation Bertolt Brecht called the Nachgeborenen (those who came after).
Thomas W. Laqueur considers the book "world-making history". [3] In The Guardian, Nicholas Lezard described the book as "a huge and necessary contribution to our understanding of this chilling subject". He describes the book as both panoptic and intimate, in that it gives the big picture while humanizing the story with anecdotes. [4]
A new survey from the Claims Conference suggests a “disturbing” lack of awareness about the Holocaust in the Netherlands, where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis.
The question of how much knowledge German (and other European) civilians had about the Holocaust whilst it was happening has been studied and debated by historians. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In Nazi Germany , it was an open secret among the population by 1943, Peter Longerich argues, but some authors place it even earlier. [ 5 ]