During the Holocaust over six million people died to Adolf Hitler’s plans to exterminate the whole Jewish population. Being in the concentration camps tested all of the Jew’s faith in God. Some of the Jews lost all faith yet some Jew’s faith stronger than it had ever been. A woman from the holocaust said, "In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously." (Frankl) being a Jew in the Holocaust strengthened her faith. The horrific things some of the Jews saw and had to do made them question if God was real and if he was why he was doing these things to them, one of these events was a young boy being hung in the gallows, A man said “For God’s sake, where is God?” (Wiesel 65) and Elie replied in his mind “ Where He is? This is where-hanging here from this gallows…” (Wiesel 65) Being a jew in the holocaust destroyed faith as the work destroyed bodies, blaming God for circumstances, while other’s faith was strengthened via a heart of thankfulness for life.
Throughout the War the SS separated many families. Family was very important to the Jews. When they got to the concentration camps guards would say “MEN TO THE LEFT! WOMEN TO THE RIGHT!” (Wiese 29) . At that moment
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While in the camp, the Jews were abused, starved, and killed. By the end of the book, Elie had a different attitude toward his own life. He writes, “It no longer mattered. After my father’s death, nothing could touch me anymore” (Wiesel 107). Previous to his father’s death, there were times when Elie watched. The Nazis abuse his father and, though he did not react, he felt the desire to “sink my nails into the criminal’s flesh” (Wiesel 37) to defend his father. But shortly before his father died, he began to care less and less about himself and his father. And when his father passed away, he no longer could imagine a reason to go on