PHL220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Viktor Frankl, Existentialism, Neurology
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Born march 26 in vienna, austria to a jewish family. Earns medical degree from the university of vienna. Placed in charge of the ward for suicidal women at the psychiatric hospital in vienna. Opens his own practice in neurology and psychiatry. Becomes head of the neurological department at rothschild hospital, the only hospital for jews in vienna during the nazi regime. In september, frankl and his family pregnant wife, mother, father, brother are arrested by the nazis. His sister had been able to emigrate to australia a short while earlier. Frankl and his family are brought to the concentration camp at theresienstadt in bohemia. His mother and brother were killed at auschwitz in 1944. His wife died at bergen-belsen in 1945 (age 24). Frankl was sent to four different concentration camps, including auschwitz and dachau yet survived. In april, frankl"s camp is liberated by the u. s. army. He returns to vienna to discover the deaths of his loved ones.
