When Jewish psychiatrist Victor Frankl was arrested by the Nazis in World War II, he was stripped of everything property, family, possessions. He had spent years researching and writing a book on the importance of finding meaning in life concepts that later would be known as logotherapy. When he arrived in Auschwitz, the infamous death camp, even his manuscript, which he had hidden in the lining of his coat, was taken away.

"I had to undergo and overcome the loss of my spiritual child," Frankl wrote. "Now it seemed as if nothing and no one would survive me; neither a physical nor a spiritual …