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The Way Faith Beats in a Heart
The Holocaust was the systematic killing, by Adolf Hitler and his followers; the Nazi, of six million Jews and one million other minority groups in Europe from 1933 to 1945. The Book Night by Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel is a first-hand account of the Holocaust. In 1944 young Elie is taken from his home in Sighet, Romania at the age of 15, and brought to the concentration camp; Auschwitz, in Poland. The book follows his journey as he lives through the horrors of the Holocaust. Elie sees his mother and sisters taken away to a crematory, men hanged for little to no reason, was forcibly whipped for defending another prisoner, and forced on a death march where he experienced many horrific things: he was almost killed over a small chunk of bread, his father almost died, he …show more content…

But Elie is also questioning why he believes. At this point Elie still has a small amount of faith. He has begun to question why God would let something as terrible as the Holocaust happen. “’… May His Name be blessed and magnified… ‘whispered my father. For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His Name? The Eternal, Lord of the universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?”(Wiesel 31). Elie has begun to hate God for the things that he has had to endure. Elie believes that God is no longer around, he is silent leaving all their prayers unanswered. He questions why he has to be thankful and bless God’s Name. Elie vowed his first night to never forget the moment that killed his God and his soul, and turned his dreams to dust. He would never forget, even if he was condemned to live as long as God himself (Wiesel 32). Elie states he will never forget the horrors he saw. They killed his faith in God, because he believed that in their moment of need God had abandoned

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Elie questions God when he first arrives at the camp and when the pipel dies, who represents innocence and the loss of Elie’s faith. He believes if God was really there He wouldn’t have put the Jewish people through those tragic events. Elie questions whether or not he should bless Him when he thinks, “ Blessed be God’s name? Why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled.

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The book called “Night” is a great book to read about survival of the fittest. The book was written by a man named Elie Wiesel and was about his experience during the Holocaust. His book has some interesting parts about how he and other Jews saw the Holocaust before and after they were taken to concentration camps. Before the Jews were taken to the camps, they thought that since the war was so far away and was going to end soon, they were safe. That soon changed because they had the chance to run and hide, but did not take it.

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The book, Night, by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about the dreadful Holocaust in which Wiesel survived. The Wiesel family consisted of Elie, his two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and younger sister, Tzipora, and parents. The family lived in the town of Sighet, Transylvania before they were shipped off to war but were then relocated to a ghetto at the beginning of the Holocaust. Elie met Moshe the Beadle in 1941 when he was about thirteen years old. Moshe the Beadle was a shtibl who was transported to one of the camps before some of the other Jews and was shot and pretended to be dead so that he could escape and return home to warn the other Jews about such occurrences but they would not listen to him.

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The book I chose to read was Night by Elie Wiesel. It is an autobiography. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish American who went through the Nazi Concentration Camps during the Holocaust. He is an author, professor and an activist. He was born on September 30th, 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania.

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They also had no possessions and separated from their family and had to work in again horrible conditions. Elie also had to watch his father be treated like he was not even human. He even had to watch people he knew and loved die and could do nothing about it. Sometimes they were sent to work until they died. My second example is when he rejects god.

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The book I read was Night written by Elie Wiesel this book takes place at Nazi concentration camps called Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel's main reason in writing Night was to show the world what he expierenced and to show what destruction mankind can do to each other. I also believe Wiesel wrote Night to prevent the horrific things that happened during the Holocaust to happen again. Another reason I think Wiesel wrote Night was to remember all the people that died at the hands of the Nazis so they can not be forgotten. When I first read Night my first thought was disbelief because I could not believe how much pain was inflicted on the Jews during the Holocaust and how Elie survived the Nazi concentration camps to

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Imagine seeing infants and young children being thrown in the air, and used for target practice. In the book “Night”, Elie Wiesel tells us what he has seen during his time in the holocaust. So many people have heard about the horrible things that happened in the holocaust, imagine going through all the stuff they went through. How would you feel seeing many young children being killed for just being how they were born? Do you think you have been able to do the things Wiesel did i survive?

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Imagine seeing a pit full of dead babies used as target practice for the german soldiers. Well during the holocaust the Jew’s and Elie Wiesel experienced this. The Holocaust was a genocide during World War 2 in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million Europeans Jews. These people were put in camps, separated from theirre family;, they had camps just for men and women they were seperated. All the children that aren't healthy and strong they would kill them and the babies were used as shooting practice.

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As for me, I had ceased to pray... I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (45). It is apparent here that the effect of the Holocaust on the Jewish people’s faith was delayed on some level. Elie refuses to pray to the God that apparently abandoned him. This is personified when he says he doubts that God has absolute justice.

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The estimated Jewish population in 1933 was nine million five hundred eight thousand three hundred and forty men women and children; the estimated Jewish survivors of the holocaust, three million five thousand forty six two hundred and eleven people total. Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor wrote an autobiography called Night, based off the tragic experiences he endured. The book tells of the sights, smells, and memories of a horrific time in history. The author,Elie, describes the life of a thirteen year old boy who struggles with the fear of losing his family and the fight to beat hunger. The violence experienced during this time is deeply developed over the course of the novel by Elie first hearing of the people’s struggles, then witnessing horrific acts and then is fully developed when Elie experiences violence first hand.

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As thousands of men say, “Blessed be God’s name.” Elie thought to himself why bless God’s name after everything that’s happening.

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Throughout most of the story he is battling with his faith, going from cursing his God to praying to Him a few pages later. Clearly, the Holocaust took a toll on Elie’s faith as well as his state of mind. After his time in the concentration camps, however, his faith in God completely

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What was there to thank Him for?” (Page 33) This means that Elie feels that God is being

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Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?"(42). This is how Elie expresses his disappointment in God by going against the religious practices he has followed all his life showing his change in his beliefs. One point that Elie put a great amount of anger in Night, is while in this camp he felt like God was nonexistent.

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People have faith that the all mighty creator does everything for a reason and that you should just trust in him. Just like these people, Elie believed in the same thing. He always had faith that whatever were to happen to him was part of God’s greater plan. Elie always thought of God before the Holocaust. When rumors struck the town of Nazis invading their town, no one believed them.

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