He reflects on how he used to pray without truly understanding why, never bothering to question the purpose behind his prayers. This sheds light on his state of mind in the days preceding the horrors of the Holocaust. Eliezer's frustration towards god grew stronger when he witnessed the deaths of those around him in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. For the first time, I felt anger rise within me. Why should I sanctify His name?
Eliezer is a young boy who is living a peaceful life in his small Jewish town of Sighet until the Nazis invade Hungary. Soon after the invasion, he and his family are transported in cattle cars to the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau where he is separated from his family. From the moment Eliezer steps foot into the camp and smells the horrible stench from the crematorium and sees babies being thrown into burning pits as if they are animals, he vows to himself that he will fight for survival. Every week he fights to stay in good health so he can stay working because he knows if it is determined that he in unable to work any longer, he has no chance at survival. This story follows the journey along with all the horrors that Eliezer if forced
“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way. " Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
