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When life calls out to us : the love and lifework of Viktor and Elly Frankl / Haddon Klingberg Jr.
TITLE:
When life calls out to us : the love and lifework of Viktor and Elly Frankl / Haddon Klingberg Jr.
Publication Date:
2001
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday,
Physical Description:
368 p. : ill.
Summary:
In a book that is at once a wonderful love story and a tribute to two extraordinary people, Haddon Klingberg, Jr., draws on a wealth of anecdotes, told to him by the Frankls themselves, to describe their separate early lives and their fifty-two years as husband and wife. Returning to Vienna after spending three years in four different concentration camps, Frankl, whose first wife and family died in the camps, turned to writing as a way of finding some purpose in his life. But it was Elly Schwindt, a woman half his age, who helped him put the pieces of his broken life together. Married in 1947, the Frankls created a life of hope and faith, a life committed to proclaiming the oneness of the human family, challenging materialistic values, and encouraging the pursuit of meaning.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780385500364
General Note:
The story behind "Man's search for meaning."