What the lessons from Auschwitz teach us about the choices we make Kenan Malik
about 5 years in The guardian
The experiences of Viktor Frankl go some way to illuminating our current dilemmas
‘To speak about the meaning and value of life may seem more necessary today than ever.” It’s a quote that might have been plucked from any number of op-eds over the past couple of months. It’s in fact the opening sentence of a 1946 lecture by psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl.
The previous year, Frankl had still been incarcerated in Auschwitz. Now he was giving a series of talks in Vienna about what his experience of Nazi death camps had taught him about the human condition. Those lectures have just been published in English for the first time as Yes to Life in Spite of Everything. Frankl’s is a voice that seems as necessary now as it was in the shadow of the Holocaust. Continue reading...
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