During World War II, the Jewish population suffered enormous loss and was treated with injustice and cruelty by the Nazis, as evidenced by the examples in the book , Man's search for meaning. Victor Frankl recounts his experiences and observations during his time as a prisoner in Auschwitz during the war. Before his imprisonment, he spent his free time as an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, Austria, and was able to implement his analytical thought processes into life in the concentration camp. As a psychological analyst, Frankl describes the daily lives of inmates, how they discover their own meaning in life and what they aspire to live for, while being mistreated, unjustly punished and served with little or no daily food. the day. day. It focuses on three psychological phases characterized by shock, apathy and the inability to maintain a normal life after leaving the camp. These themes recur throughout the book, which the inmates experience when they are first imprisoned, as they adapt as prisoners, and when they are released from imprisonment. It also emphasizes the need to hope, to find a purpose to continue fighting for their lives, even if they were stripped naked and treated as inferior to the human race. In addition, Capos and SS guards, who were part of Hitler's secret society, tormented many unjustly convicted people. Although many suffered violent deaths from gas chambers, frostbite, starvation, etc., many more suffered internally from losing confidence in themselves to continue living. Frankl describes on page twenty-six the horrors he faced when he encountered accounts of the gas chambers disguised as public baths. Like unjustly imprisoned prisoners...... middle of paper ......ences individuals treated in Nazi concentration camps. He writes to avoid any personal bias, because he himself was a prisoner, and emphasizes the idea that man has the capacity to determine what will happen to his life, since he himself has was able to apply this thought while he lived for three years in captivity. His notion of finding meaning in life becomes a key factor in survival, which was ultimately able to help him and others, through his teachings, emerge from the camps alive with a positive attitude. The need for hope gave him a purpose to continue fighting, even though others were struck by the idea of ​​suicide. Although Victor E. Frankl faced many difficulties and challenges during his captivity and the days following his release, he ultimately realizes that life will never cease to have meaning, even in the cruelest conditions..