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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
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8.2 (52 Ratings)
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I truly enjoyed this story and was glad it was a story that got told. I remember reading it in high school, and I think we had just finished discussing The Holocaust history so everything was fresh in my mind. I liked that we got a different point of view for this type of story and that it was told from a young girl's perspective.
  
Anne Frank and Me
Anne Frank and Me
Cherie Bennett, Jeff Gottesfeld | 2002 | Young Adult (YA)
10
10.0 (2 Ratings)
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So good
At first I thought this book was just going to be ok. Nicole, the main character is so shallow and self absorbed. But then the story gets going and it just blew me away. This book shows not just the violence of the holocaust but the way they stripped so much of a persons humanity from them. It shook me as few other books have.
  
Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust
Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust
Viktor E. Frankl | 2004 | Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
8.2 (5 Ratings)
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"Viktor Frankl was a disciple of Freud. He was a psychoanalyst who, after surviving a death camp in the Holocaust, wrote this deeply spiritual book that is simultaneously psychoanalytic and autobiographical. This is a book about the power of the mind creating a reason to live in order to survive a dire situation. There is no more powerful a story than one about survival."

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Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
1960 | Drama
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". . . which I first viewed at the Imperial War Museum while ensconced in the film archive researching for Overlord. It had a huge effect on me at the time, and I still regard it as one of the most profound films about the holocaust. Particularly in light of the fact that it was made so soon after World War II and was hauntingly structured by Resnais as a documentary."

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Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust
Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust
Viktor E. Frankl | 2004 | Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
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8.2 (5 Ratings)
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Harrowing and important
I wish I concentrated on this more. There are some very important and valid points Viktor Frankl makes, especially given the author is also a psychiatrist and a survivor of the Holocaust. It is extremely traumatic and harrowing hearing his experiences in several concentration camps, and how he changed his attitude in order to stay alive.

Frankl concludes that man's search for purpose and meaning in life gives his ability to survive.