Last week, I visited a concentration camp.  It was not the first time I had visited this particular one.  But it was the first time I visited it after studying Viktor Frankl, Logotherapy, and Man’s Search for Meaning.

In that concentration camp, I was reminded of humankind’s capacity to exact horrible suffering on each other.

I was also reminded of the power of the defiant human spirit, and the triumph of Dr. Frankl’s human spirit.

I was also reminded that his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, is just as relevant, just as necessary, as it was decades ago when it was first written.  Maybe even more so now.

“On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles—whatever one may choose to call them—we know: the best of us did not return.” – Viktor Frankl