Viktor Frankl's flight into the spiritual
TitleViktor Frankl's flight into the spiritual
Author
Call number940.5318/0430
Object number09026f
Place of publicationJerusalem
PublisherYad Vashem
Year of publication
2014
Physical description256p.
MaterialArticle
ISBN9789653084650
NotesArticle from the book 'Europe in the eyes of survivors of the Holocaust' pp127-146
Description
Viktor Frankl, the famous psychotherapist was born in Vienna into an assimilated family. After surviving Auschwitz he went on to write Man's Search for Meaning, a book that became famous around the world and amongst adherents of different religions. Christians in particular took from this book that Frankl was a closet Christian, which was not the case. Rather Frankl chose to make meaning of the Holocaust from his experiences and became more of a religious Jew as a result.