During the Holocaust and time spent in the Nazi death camps, Eliezer Wiesel soon started questioning whether there was a God due to the lack of His presence during the radiation of an endless hell. Eliezer Wiesel was a fifteen-year-old boy who lived in Sighet, Transylvania. He was later removed from his home and was placed into a ghetto, then a work camp. The title Night represents the never-ending darkness Eliezer was being suffocated by without hope of seeing any light. Eliezer and his father supported each other through the torment the Nazis were putting not only them through, but an entire five to six million other Jewish people. Without each other, they would have died. Through torture, stripping him of his family, and dehumanization, Eliezer would begin to question his faith due to the lack of the presence of the Lord’s mercy during the most unholy of circumstances.
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With only a ration of old bread crust and dirt soup, Eliezer would soon watch as people around him start to die due to starvation. With the risk of starving to death in mind, Eliezer would give his sickly father his rations of bread when he was laid up in bed with sepsis. Eliezer was put under significant mental abuse that resulted in him questioning his faith. He was around people pushed to the brink of insanity screaming blasphemy. The SS officers would always remind him that his God was a lie. This started to make Eliezer think of reasons why the Lord was fictional. “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 he Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine Altar?” (Wiesel 67). Eliezer was questioning his faith in the Lord because of the utter awe he was in at what he witnessed. How could a being