Night Many times as Christians or Jews, we find ourselves or others to be in rough situations that make us question God. When it comes to this topic, one event in human history stands clearly above the rest: the Holocaust. From an outsider’s perspective, believers understandably question why God would allow something so terrible to happen, but seeing the perspective of someone who experienced these horrors is a whole other level. Elie Wiesel in his book “Night” shows the world how the Holocaust caused him and others to question God.
This account of Elie Wiesel begins in his home Sighet, Romania and he is at the age of thirteen in 1941. At this stage in his life Elie is focused on learning the Talmud and desired to learn about the Kabbalah, but his father told him he was too young for this. Elie found someone to teach him who was Moishe the Beadle. Moishe was taken away along with foreign Jews by the Hungarian police, and eventually the gestapo made them dig trenches where they were shot and killed one at a time. Moishe managed to escape and he attempted to warn his fellow Jews
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Then things got worse and Jewish leaders were arrested along with taking away any gold, jewelry, or valuables the Jews owned, and they were made to wear a yellow star. Then the Jews were forced into two ghettos within their village. All the while, Elie and his family as well as many other Jewish families made no attempt to disobey the Germans and Hungarian police. Elie claimed at this time they were living in a state of delusion. Then the Jews were transported to Auschwitz by cattle cars fitting eighty people to each one with little food or water. During the deportation, Mrs. Schachter lost her mind and would consistently scream of a fire that wasn’t there until people forced her to be