Reflection On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel is a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He has also written Night a memoir about the torture he endured during the Holocaust.The Holocaust took the lives of over 11 million people, among these six million Jews. Elie is one of the Jews who was sent to concentration camps. There he was beaten,was used for manual labor and watched his father being tortured. Even with this, he survived and became famous. Through this experience Elies connection with God as well as his relationship with his father was changed through pain and anguish.

Elie’s spirituality was altered through the pain he endured during the holocaust. Early in the memoir Elie was 13 and deeply religious. He describes his life, “By day I studied the Talmud and by night