A purpose overcomes the horror
By Daniel C. Peterson
For the Deseret News
Published: Thursday, May 10 2012
Summary
Among the most significant books to emerge out of the Nazi Holocaust was the Viennese neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" — originally published in 1946 as "Say 'Yes' to Life Despite Everything".
Survivor of 2½ years in the concentration camps, Frankl observed that a sense of meaning or purpose was essential to living through such horrific ordeals.
Without hope, seemingly strong men often died surprisingly quickly, while physically weak men who maintained faith or a belief in life's significance sometimes endured against apparently impossible odds.
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