Millions of Jews died during the Holocaust and had to find strength within themselves to survive. During the Holocaust, Hitler made the final solution that affected Elie and his family, just because they were Jewish. Over 6 million Jews were affected or killed by the Holocaust which ended up making millions of Jews who survived have depression, anxiety, and many other problems they had to overcome because of the Holocaust. Jews that were in concentration camps were considered not human because of their religion and were faced with never-ending horror. Holocaust survivors faced horrific events and had to overcome them by having bravery and strength to persevere through the Holocaust.
Elie found his strength through his father during the Holocaust. He would have died if it was not for him. When Elie was so close to being liberated he faced one of the hardest points in his journey “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. No longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road… My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me”(Wiesel 86). Elie had to run for hours and hours
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She found God in a time of hardships and loss. In Magda’s journey she was starving and was close to giving up but her trust in God was never failing “I think my great trust in God was my source of survival,” she said. “Regardless of what I experienced in the camps, and all of those terrible things, I’m still a loving and forgiving person” (Magda Herzberger). If she didn’t have her trust in God then she would not have been able to move on and forget about all the terrible things she saw in the Holocaust, like she has done. She feels like her religion saved her by keeping her faith. She is still a nice and caring person even after all the things she has