Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

The book Night by Elie Wiesel shows how the main character Elie has been through situations of tragedy and pain that have caused Elie to struggle with his faith. Still, you can understand that this boy who is only Fifteen years old is struggling with his faith because he had never been exposed to being tested on his faith by an oppressive authority. He studied the Kalababah with Moshe the Beadle and wanted to be a Rabbi. He was deep in his culture and his religion. Then, the holocaust got its way in Sighet, Hungary where Elie lived as a child. The holocaust specifically the Auschwitz concentration camp, was the reason Elie had a scuffle with his faith. Why many Jewish people have difficulty with their faith.

Auschwitz was a camp of death. The treatment that the Nazi party had developed during the holocaust but specifically Auschwitz was a factory of people that did the dirty work of the oppressor. When Elie first makes it to Auschwitz it is midnight and he notices that this place is not a hotel or a temporary stay. Elie specifically describes how Auschwitz is. “In front of us. Those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh.” (Wiesel 28). As you can see these

People would be stripped from their clothes and shoes and washed like dirty dogs. They would beat you if you did not do what they wanted you to do. Officers and medical workers at Auschwitz would take your items, even a small little gold crown from your teeth. The people who ran the concentration camp even would make you pick up the burnt bodies of your own kind, they did not even care if it was a loved one. Since Jews were treated in this dehumanizing manner, of course, it caused them to have died not just by being burnt or suffocated by gas, but by sickness and disease, and starvation. So in plain sight, Jews and people struggled with their faith. Because they were struggling with just keeping themselves