A review by mg2023
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl

5.0

This book is a recent publication of Viktor Frankl’s long lost lectures that he had delivered months after he was freed from the Nazi death camps. Though it’s similar in nature to his ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ thesis, it is a much more raw account of his reflections from the experience of the holocaust. One of the main contrasts is his frustration with the Austrian people’s indifference to the holocaust and their dismissal by saying “we weren’t aware these horrors were happening.” Frankl confronts his audience on this evident self-deception and invites them to a sense of guilt and responsibility. It is remarkable that though being the victim of this heinous crime, he first and foremost holds himself to account reminiscent of a feeling of “survivor’s guilt.” A definite must-read.