Say “Yes!” to Life: A Psychologist in a Concentration Camp

The book “Say ‘Yes!’ to Life: A Psychologist in a Concentration Camp” is an autobiographical work by Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist and the founder of logotherapy. In it, the author describes his experience in Nazi concentration camps during World War II — including Auschwitz — and his observations on how people found meaning and preserved human dignity even in the most horrific conditions. This book is not only a testimony to the Holocaust, but also a profound philosophical reflection on human nature, suffering, and the search for meaning in life. Frankl develops the idea that even in the most dire circumstances, a person retains the freedom to choose their own attitude toward what is happening, and it is precisely in this freedom that the possibility of maintaining human dignity and finding a purpose in existence lies.