Night by Elie Wiesel is a compelling story of one boy’s survival of the Holocaust. Elie starts describing his early years in the town of Sighet in Transylvania. Here his father was a prominent member of the Jewish community and Elie devotes his entire life to his religious beliefs. “During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.” His beliefs …showed first 75 words of 1730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1730 total…death of his family, the death of his innocence, and the death of his God. During this period of his life there was no “Savior” in his life. Time and healing have lead to belief once again, but for that 12-year-old boy as he lived through the German concentration camps God did not exist in his life. It was the nonexistence of a God for which his faith caused him to experience such an ordeal.