Noah Schultz Mrs. Sahi Language Arts 2 14 March, 2024 Placeholder The memoir, Night, written by Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Elie Wiesel, chronicles Eliezer’s experiences during the Holocaust. Elie endures the torture of life in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald. Growing up in Sighet, a town in Transylvania, Elie was a deeply observant boy, always interested in learning about his faith. Elie learned Kabbalah under Moishe the Beadle, a poor man, who lived in Sighet along with Wiesel. Until he was 15, Elie lived with his parents and little sister, until the Nazis deported the Jewish population of Sighet to Auschwitz. Elie would be separated from his mother and sister shortly after arriving, having only his father …show more content…
While all the other Jews were praying at the Appellplatz on Rosh Hashanah, Elie thought "I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man" (68). The killing and torture led Elie to, even on Rosh Hashanah, doubt his faith in God and humanity. He lost his faith as a result of how he didn't understand how God could let this happen. He refused to praise a God who lets factories of death thrive uncontested by the public. Additionally, while others were fasting, Elie decided he no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him” (pg 69). Elie no longer supported the indifference of others and God. To show that he no longer cared about his faith, he decided not to participate in the practices of the holiday by refusing to fast. Elie preferred to put his own survival over preserving his beliefs. Wiesel's faith was ripped away from him by the horrors of the Holocaust and the mistreatment he endured from people who were allowed by the world to commit these