Victor Frankl's Experiences During The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II, where many people lost their lives. The Holocaust lasted between 1933 and 1945. During the holocaust many Jews were tortured to death, which resulted in the mass casualties of 6 million Jews. Between the years of 1933 and 1945 the Nazis and people who sided with them, established more than 44,000 camps and even other incarceration sites, this also included ghettos. One big one was definitely the concentration camps, concentration camps were always inaccurately compared to prisons. The Nazi concentration camps served three main purposes. For example, one of the purposes of it was to torture “enemies of the state” and they were tortured for long periods of time. Another example
Towards the end, the Jews eventually started to lose hope and didn’t try to stay alive any longer. As for Victor Frankl, his experiences in the concentration camps were just as bad as everyone else's. The only difference between Frankl and most others is that he always kept a positive mindset and always used different methods to get him through his days. For example, Frankl carried three methods with him, one was completing tasks, two was making sure to care for one another during this horrific time, and three the most important one was finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity. Finding the proper meaning of their life during this time was very important because even though all the Jews were going through a really bad time or felt they had a really bad life, Frankl would try to remind as many people as he could to just find the meaning of their life instead of giving up so easily. Frankl believed that most of the people who survived the concentration camps were able to find a purpose in life to make themselves feel
Some of the basics of logotherapy are “human life has meaning”, ‘human beings long to experience their own sense of life”, and lastly “humans have the potential to experience meaning under any circumstance”. With this logotherapy has been found successful in helping disorders and increasing life satisfaction. Logotherapy was originally founded by Frankl and developed in the 1940s due to his suffering and experiences in the camps. The term logotherapy is combined with logos and is a Greek word for meaning. Even through really troubling times people always find the urge to find meaning or purpose in life and to Frankl that is called a “will to meaning”. Frankl realized that finding the meaning allowed the people who survived to get through the hard times and come out the other side. Some of the core components of logotherapy is that every person holds a healthy core and even though life provides everyone with purpose, it most definitely does not mean you will be fulfilled or happy. One of Frankl's biggest things in his book was “freedom of