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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

A psychiatrist is sent to Auschwitz and asks what makes survival possible. His answer was meaning.

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Alumni Reflections


Across the years, the March has meant something different to everyone who walked it, and something the same.

Jessica Handler on the March of the Living
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Standing at Auschwitz Changed Me

Jessica Handler · 2024 March of the Living

Memory is not the opposite of the future. It is its foundation.

A historian who thought she knew the Holocaust discovers, on the walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, that memory is an inheritance to carry, marching in the names of the family her grandfather, Sidney Handler, could never lay to rest.

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