Elie Wiesel, tells of his experiences with the Nazi SS, and concentration camps. This

book begins late in 1941. Wiesel was from the small town of Sighet, Transylvania. He

led a typical life- a devote student and deeply religious person. He was filled with the

false impression that they- himself, his town, his family, would not be affected by the

war. Still filled with this optimism, deportation began. Life in the Ghettos was paradise

compared to what was to come. Packed in a cattle car, Wiesel and his family were taken

to Auschwitz. There, the family was spilt up. Wiesel only had his father now for his

basis for support. He and his father learned how to survive at Auschwitz from the

‘veterans’ there. He faced each day as a witness to starvation, brutal beatings, death, and

the wavering of faith in God. Now, becoming desensitized to death, Wiesel witnessed the

deaths of countless individuals. One could potentially put to death for being an innocent

bystander. No rules applied here. Evacuation became a familiar setting. Wiesel and his

father, still together, barely survived the hellish journey to Buchenwald. This j

pain a man can inflict on his own kind.

home, their personal possessions, and their family. Many had never witnessed a person

and tolerance are. The Jews were not responsible for all the problems of the world nor

the Jews a scapegoat for a solution to Hitler’s problems.

Hope was one thing that could not be taken away. It also seemed that for every act of

of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.” (109) Wiesel was not only in poor physical

the belief in God’s existence deteriorated. The definition of God is redefined in the

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