This Holocaust Survivor Shares The Meaning of Life
Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl’s intention was to show us that people can still say yes to life in spite of everything.
Viktor Frankl survived the Holocaust. He survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Kaufering and Türkheim.
In the months after being liberated from these camps, Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna that just this year were translated into English and assembled into Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything.
In the pages of Yes to Life, Frankl shares that his intention is to show people that they can still, despite hardship and death, despite suffering from physical or mental illness, or under the fate of a concentration camp, say yes to life in spite of everything.
Frankl addresses the meaning of life by adjusting it ever so slightly to discovering the meaning of your life. In discovering the meaning of your life, Frankl suggests that this meaning is active.
“The meaning of one’s life changes from moment to moment, none of us know what is waiting for us, what big moment or unique opportunity for acting in an exceptional way might be coming.”
