The Importance of Spirituality in a Concentration Camp

Sensitive people who were used to a rich intellectual life may have suffered much pain. They were often of a delicate constitution, but the damage to their inner selves was less. Only in this way can one explain the apparent paradox that some prisoners of a less hardy make up often seemed to survive camp life better than did those of a robust nature. A few months before our liberation and the end of the war, it was possible for spiritual life to deepen.