Sublime

The day after the episode with the foreman he smuggled me into another work party.

The majority of prisoners suffered from a kind of inferiority complex. We all had once been or had fancied ourselves to be “somebody.” Now we were treated like complete nonentities. (The consciousness of one’s inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot be shaken by camp life. But how many free men, let alone prisoners, pos

“Today as never before it is important that human beings should not overlook the danger of the evil lurking within them.”

Survivors don’t have time to ask, “Why me?” For survivors, the only relevant question is, “What now?”

Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl describes our attitudes and reactions as being the last of our human freedoms.

man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

a “provisional existence of unknown limit.”

the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.