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Man's Search For Meaning

Man's Search For Meaning

The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

Summary

Over 16 million copies sold worldwide

'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek

One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.

Reviews

  • Remarkable...It changed my life and became a part of all that I live and all that I teach.
    Susan Jeffers, author of Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway and Embracing Uncertainty

About the author

Viktor E Frankl

Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905 and was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. His wife, father, mother and brother all died in Nazi concentration camps, only he and his sister survived, but he never lost the qualities of compassion, loyalty, undaunted spirit and thirst for life (earning his pilot's licence aged 67). He died in Vienna in 1997.
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