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...great Viennese psychotherapist Viktor Frankl wrote, “Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.” This quotation, found in Frankl’s seminal work, Man’s Search for Meaning, is a reminder that even in the darkness of great evil the light of human dignity shines...
Murdered journalist Daniel Pearl’s reported last words, “I am a Jew, and my mother was a Jew,” are reminiscent of the conviction shown by the Holocaust victims Frankl recounts entering the gas chambers. Like many of the millions of innocent people who have died for their religion or their nationality in the past, Daniel Pearl’s death was an affirmation of his life...