How Did Elie Wiesel Lose Faith In Night

In Night, a memoir, by Elie Wiesel, tells about his life during the holocaust and how he begins to question his faith as he witnesses the brutality of the Nazis. The Nazis force them into concentration camps and murder them without mercy. In Buna, he witnesses God being hanged as he watched a young boy being executed in front of his eyes. Wiesel starts to question his faith in God when witnessing the horrific events he experienced during the holocaust.

One Jew that lost hope and died was a man named Stein. He was a relative of Wiesel and came from Antwerp. He was separated from his family just like Wiesel was and he had said that “the only thing that keeps him alive is that Reizel and the children are still alive. If it wasn’t for them, I couldn’t keep going”(Wiesel 42). So when he went to see the new transport that came in from Antwerp, he had realized that his family had not been there and it was a strong indication that he had likely gave up and died, probably from hunger or he killed himself, as he was not seen or heard from again after that.

Prisoners of the Holocaust spoke not only of religious faith disintegrating, but also how their faith in humanity depleted. Wiesel recounts how one prisoner said, “I’ve got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He’s the only one who’s kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people” (77). The only person that the prisoners can put any of their trust into is the one who is slowly killing them. Another instance of loss of faith in humanity is when Wiesel witnesses the son of a rabbi he knew run away from his father. The son tries to escape his dying father so that he no longer has to take care of him and can selfishly live on. After watching this Wiesel finds himself praying to a god he no longer believes in, “My God, Lord of the Universe, give me the strength to never do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son has done” (87). No matter how tough it is to go on, Wiesel will not give up. He will continue to live through the miserable conditions of the Holocaust just so that he does not give up on his father, the only person he has faith left

For many people in the world they have their own religions and beliefs. For some this can be a great part of their life. With it being such a great part with their life, it might be the only thing keeping them going through the day. Keeping faith can be hard during hardship some stages some people might experience would be devotion, questioning faith and finally losing faith.

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

People tend to think that it is difficult to trust in something invisible, but it is especially challenging for someone to do so when he has everything taken away. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel recalls his experiences with his family during World War II. After he first arrives at Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel’s mother and sisters are taken away from him. His father is suddenly all that remains of his family. Elie Wiesel witnesses many other terrible events during his first night at camp; the only thing that keeps him sane is his father. Elie Wiesel’s father even keeps him from rebelling and possibly getting himself killed before the Germans intended. When Wiesel lives in the concentration camp with his fellow Jews, he begins to question the

The book Night by Elie Wiesel has become popular worldwide teaching people all ages about the Holocaust. Night tells about young Elie Wiesel’s life story as he lives as a Jew during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel tells how things changed for him and Jewish families all across Europe as they were sent to concentration camps where they were brutally treated. Elie Wiesel’s family was sent to Auschwitz concentration in 1944. In the concentration camps families would be split up including Elie Wiesel’s, he was split apart from his mother and sister and was forced to live with only his dad. At the concentration camps Jews were treated like animals many Jews died at these camps, others became insane. The Nazis treated the Jews like animals by taking away their humanity and causing them additional pain.

Elie Wiesel’s book “ Night “ takes place during the crucial events of the Holocaust. Elie and his family are taken to a ghetto and later on taken to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. They were taken there for one reason and one reason only, they were jews. Elie witnessed murder and soulless acts at his stay in Auschwitz, death was in the air. Elie and his father only had each other. One theme that is seen throughout the novel is that times like this can bring two people together to build a better relationship.

Due to the inhumane methods towards the Jews during the Holocaust, many lost their faith and commitment to Judaism. Jews were appalled that God, who was supposed to be their savior, abandoned them in a time where they needed him the most. Although many Jews kept their faith and did not question God’s mysterious ways, many did not have the same outlook. People assume that hard times strengthen people’s faith, but that was not always the case. During great tragedy's, people’s faith may disintegrate and become completely absent from their minds. Many prisoners including Elie Wiesel could not accept God’s silence and rebelled against their religious upbringing during the Holocaust.

Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the most famous and celebrated Holocaust survivor’s, Night is a memoir about life inside the camps of the Holocaust. Where the Nazis killed six million Jews, and five million Gentiles. He endured many transformations while in the concentration camps; the two essential changes are his relationship with his father and spiritually with God.

Throughout Hitler’s reign during the Holocaust, the victims’ faith in God started to disappear. The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a dramatic account of Elie’s experience in the Holocaust. He is forced to choose between faith, death, self-interest, or interest in others. Elie Wiesel was thirteen when the Hungarian police started to capture people and put them into the hands of the Nazis. Elie was transported to Auschwitz with his whole family, but was forced to separate from his mother and sister.

In Elie Wiesel's book “ Night” he reveals his experiences and memories during the Holocaust of 1941-1945. Elie Wiesel’s experience was dull, filled with violence and darkness. Elie changes not only emotionally but physically, and spiritually.

No candle lit in his memory” (Wiesel 112). Wiesel’s faith was his entire life before his time in the concentration camps but the cruel hatred and treatment of Elie and his religion brought him to question his faith and even eliminated it to a point out of his

The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.

“Night”, written by Elie Wiesel is a novel where the author speaks on the events of his life, and the many different jewish concentration camps he was jailed in. Wiesel talks a lot about God, and he questions why he should even worship him because he believed that God was not helping him and his family through their misery. He also talked about the high number of deaths each day, and the all the hardships that the people in concentration camps went through, including himself. Furthermore, Wiesel talked about how me managed to get out of trouble and get food during the most hardest times. He talked about his struggles in the camp and also the struggles after he was freed. The horrifying events that occurred to Elie Wiesel always stayed