We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles—whatever one may choose to call them—we know: the best of us did not return.
This is such a powerful statement coming from a survivor. The first associations that would come to my mind when talking about Holocaust survivors are heroic, respectable, perseverent etc. However, as Frankl highlights moral and ethical issues became less important for the prisoners in their struggle for survival justified by their "task" to return home to their families and friends, or to save their fellows and themselves in the camp. Indeed, in this light my original ideas wouldn't stand.