Frankl wrote: “In the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not the result of camp influences alone.” What is Creator’s perspective?

To be sure, there was no one there to teach the inmates how to live under such dark and uncertain circumstances. The whole point of the internment camps was killing, if not directly through execution, through deprivation—a combination of starvation, lack of healthcare, overcrowding, and brutality that would break out amongst the inmates, not to mention the guards who were primed to seek opportunities to commit acts of savagery and many individual killings to satisfy a kind of bloodlust. This is one of the most horrible of environments one could imagine. Someone who can remain calm and centered and grounded under such circumstances has more to work with than intellect alone. They must draw totally on the inner resources they may possess and this becomes one of the most powerful arguments for maintaining a partnership with the divine. This far exceeds what one might face in terms of a rainy day where the careful storing of provisions will help greatly when it is challenging to search for food beyond one’s home shelter. When day-to-day living is only delaying death by a matter of months, weeks, or days, the focus on survival becomes paramount. Those who were spiritual, fared much better under those dire circumstances because they had the inner resources to know there is something higher and better in the universe, and that they are a part of it somehow. They could feel, at least intuitively, that the existence of love means that love is possible for them to acquire and somewhere there is love for themselves. We can tell you we touched the hearts of many again and again and again during their time in the death camps because if you open the door to us, even only a little bit, we will be there to bring love your way and you will know it.