Rufina Kucher Ms.Beach Advanced English 1 period 14 March 2018 A Night of the Holocaust The faith of God, humanity, and unity were all destryoed by the Nazi’s during the holocoust, a time of slaughter of European civilians, especially Jews during World War II. Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, and an author who explains his experience of life in a concentration camp in the book, Night. Elie Wiesel was one of the many Jews who were forced to go to a concentration camp. Although they've went through hard times and kept their hopes up for a long time, they lost their faith and humanity was destroyed. Elie was born on September 30th in 1928. He was 15 at the time of the holocaust, he died on July 2nd in 2016. Elie had …show more content…
Where's God? How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy?” (Wiesel 76). Elie explained how even though he is only a human in his faith, he still describes how God is not helping. He explains why he is starting to give up on his beliefs. “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?” (Wiesel 67). Elie has now given up on God, he explains how there is nothing to praise God for. He describes what he is going through, how hard it really is to be in his position, and he can not understand why God won’t help him, so he starts to not find a purpose of blessing God’s name, he doesn’t find a reason to bless God’s name. Elie doesn’t find why must he serve his faith if his faith won’t help him and his people struggling with him. This is what he is going threw. Elie has lost his …show more content…
Faith was lost, and it was because of what Elie has been through. Nobody deserves to go through something like this. These people were treated worse than animals. The holocaust is proof of what people have the power of doing to each other even though we are all human. I haven’t been anywhere close to being a prisoner in a concentration camp, and Elie didn’t give up, but if I would be in his place, I would try really hard not to lose my faith. That is something that no one can take away. Yes, they can try breaking it, but they can’t take it away. You must continue to stand for what you believe in, and it’s hard to go threw what the prisoners have gone through. The holocaust was a part of history that nobody can fix. Faith shouldn’t be tested or lost this way. And inhumanity shouldn’t exist, aren’t we all human? Don’t we bleed the same blood? What the prisons have gone trough was something I don’t dream even in my nightmares. Elie Wiesel was a prisoner, and he explains deeply what his life was during the holocaust, his story is painted with dark sentences. His story begins in chapter one of his book,
The terrible experiences Elie underwent at Auschwitz altered his faith in God. In the start, Elie devoted his time and energy
I remember when I was little, I would sometimes start crying because people made fun of me for what I believed in (and I was at a Catholic school for heaven’s sake!), but that is nothing compared to what Elie went through during his time in the “Death Factory”, Camp Auschwitz. In the famous memoir by Elie Wiesel, Night, Elie speaks of his physically and emotionally crushing experience in the most famous concentration camp, Auschwitz. At the beginning of the memoir Night, Elie was deeply religious and God was part of his daily life, but at the end of the memoir, he had lost most of his faith in God because he was destroyed on the inside from the Nazis. Throughout the memoir, Night, Elie is slowly losing his faith in God in whom he loved and
Elie specifically says that because God was the first person he turned to when he had a problem. Elie states “ I pray to the God within me for the strength
He questions why he has to be thankful and bless God’s Name. Elie vowed his first night to never forget the moment that killed his God and his soul, and turned his dreams to dust. He would never forget, even if he was condemned to live as long as God himself (Wiesel 32). Elie states he will never forget the horrors he saw. They killed his faith in God, because he believed that in their moment of need God had abandoned
After a hard day at camp Elie is lying in his bunk when the other prisoners start to sing. He questions why they are singing praise to God while they are being tortured because of him. Elie also wonders why God doesn't come and help them. He tells us " I was not denying his existence but I doubted his absolute justice."
At this point in his life, Elie had all of his needs and was sincerely loyal to his religion. While Elie was in Auschwitz, some of the other Jews began praying and saying that God is testing them, to see how much they are able to handle. Elie did not agree with praying to the person who was supposedly responsible for all of this. “As for me, I had ceased to pray... I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.”
In every fiber, I rebelled. Because He had had thousands of children burned in his pits? Because He kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and feast days? Because on His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Bierkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death?” (64)Elie Wiesel uses descriptive words to engage the reader.
The murder of so many children under God’s supervision is unforgivable to Elie. “Why would I bless His name?” (Wiesel 67) Elie asks himself
This signifies Elie’s low point with his faith for God. He is questioning God’s morality and even if He exists at all. Ultimately, there is no indication suggesting that Elie completely gives up on his belief in Judaism. In addition, there are hints throughout the rest of the memoir of Elie’s ongoing faith in God. Therefore, it is inferred that he realized God came through for him and the other victims.
When Elie says ‘For God’s sake, where is God?’ and from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where He is? This is where-hanging here from these gallows…” (Wiesel 65) this is when we realize that Elie has lost his faith in god. Not becoming atheist but dropping the notion that god is wonderful and amazing and should be worshiped day in and day out and should be sacrificed for and prayed to and begged forgiveness of.
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history. It just so happened to be the cause of six million deaths. While there are countless beings who experienced such trauma, it is impossible to hear everyone's side of the story. However, one man, in particular, allowed himself to speak of the tragedies. Elie Wiesel addressed the transformation he underwent during the Holocaust in his memoir, Night.
Why do you go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies?”(Wiesel 68) Wiesel clearly is losing faith in God because he has seen babies burned alive, families killed together. Wiesel blames God for what has happened. Additionally, Elie Wiesel is not thankful for God anymore because he is not in Auschwitz helping him and the rest of the Jews. Wiesel feels anger towards God.
As for me, I had ceased to pray... I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (45). It is apparent here that the effect of the Holocaust on the Jewish people’s faith was delayed on some level. Elie refuses to pray to the God that apparently abandoned him. This is personified when he says he doubts that God has absolute justice.
When these people were being treated in such malicious ways, they started to believe that God wasn’t really there for them. They felt as if He wasn 't there to protect them. Sometimes, they started to rebel against their own religion and turn to their worst enemies for faith. Throughout Elie’s memoir, Night, Elie shows that many people, including himself, lost faith during their stay at the concentration camps. Many other victims of the concentration camps lived to see such tragedies that they began to lose hope in God, as well as he did.
This is very surprising and speaks to how horrifying the Holocaust is, because it causes a child from religious upbringings to lose their beliefs. At first, Elie lightly questions the concept of God, “the Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, [who] chose to be silent” (Wiesel 33). He does not stay consistent, and tends to go back and forth in regards to his beliefs. After any small victory he has, he thanks God for it and expresses his happiness. This slowly disappears though, and Elie does not acknowledge God in a positive light as the story progresses.