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In this work, a Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 the author, a psychiatrist labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished....
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"Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on the Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays...
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In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle's military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of France only to be betrayed by one of his associates, arrested, wounded by the Gestapo, and taken prisoner. His sisters carried on the fight without him until the end of the war. Boulloche survived three concentration camps and later became a prominent French politician who devoted the rest...
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"Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau. During six...
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El doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de multiples padecimientos: Por que no se suicida usted? Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientacion para la psicoterapia a aplicar: a este, lo que le ata a la vida son los hijos; al otro, un talento, una habilidad sin explotar; a un tercero, quizas, solo unos cuantos recuerdos que merece la pena rescatar del olvido. Tejer estas tenues hebras de vidas rotas...
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Jest dzień 14 czerwca, 1940 rok. Dzień upalny, słoneczny, piękny. Wczoraj popołudniu przewieziono nas z tarnowskiego więzienia w samochodach ciężarowych do łażni. Przez całą noc trwały kąpiele, ale cóż to za kąpiele były... Wszyscy weszli do wody, pomoczyli się, pomoczyli i wyszli.Kilka kobiet dało nam trochę jedzenia, były chyba z organizacji charytatywnej.A teraz jest ranek przeprowadzają nas przez miasto pod eskortą policji....
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KL Auschwitz to bezmiar ludzkiego cierpienia, poniżenie, rozpad osobowości i heroiczne próby ocalenia własnej tożsamości. Świat odwróconego Dekalogu. Świat odwróconych ludzkich wartości. Świat bez nadziei, bez litości dla innych, świat bez Boga. Przykazaniami tego świata było: "zabijaj", "kradnij" albo też "mów fałszywe świadectwo". Trzeba było niezwykłego męstwa, charakteru i opanowania, żeby być po prostu człowiekiem, kiedy...
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"Eddie Jaku se consideraba alemán antes que judío. Siempre sintió un gran orgullo por su país, hasta que en 1938 fue arrestado por los nazis y trasladado a uno de sus campos de concentración. Aunque su formación como ingeniero le concedió ciertos privilegios, primero en Buchenwald y después en Auschwitz, Eddie sufrió horrores indecibles. Perdió a su familia, a sus amigos, a su país. Durante todos esos años, lo que le mantuvo con vida fue...
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