Alexander Cooper 
Summary of Man’s Search for Meaning 
by Victor Frankl – A Comprehensive Summary

Man’s Search for Meaning - A Comprehensive Summary



Man’s Search for Meaning is not an account of facts and events, but a story of personal experience of life in a concentration camp. There are countless stories about the horrors of camp life, but this book is about the how everyday life in a concentration camp affected the mind of the average prisoner. It therefore isn’t a book about the heroes or martyrs of the camp, nor is it about the Capos—prisoners who acted on behalf of their captors and often against other prisoners. Capos often fared better in camp than they had in their previous lives and many treated the other prisoners more brutally than some of the SS men.

        The day-to-day life of a prisoner was a violent struggle for survival physically, emotionally, and morally. For example, when transport units arrived in camp, everyone understood they would take the sick and feeble prisoners away to be executed or worked to death. Prisoners did everything in their power to ensure that they were not on the list, even though they knew that avoiding the list meant a different prisoner had to take their place. The authorities were unconcerned about which men actually went to die because the prisoners were all the same to them.

        Rather than thinking of them as humans, they were reduced to mere numbers tattooed on their skin. When it came to survival, prisoners did not have time or the desire to consider…



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