Humanity Stripped: Elie Wiesel's Experience in Holocaust

The holocaust was a time the Jewish community faced a very troubling era. In the book "Night", a man named Elie Wiesel, was the author and a survivor of this tragic incident. He explained throughout the book about his life as a child going through the holocaust. Although he survived that terrible time, he lost the ones closest to him such as his family. The Nazis took away the humanity of the inmates in the concentration camps, how the inmates maintain their humanity, and how the inmates used religion as a metaphor for humanity. Even though Elie survived what he went through he would never be the same.
The National Socialist German Worker Party known as the Nazis was run by Adolf Hitler. This grew into a mass movement controlled by Germany

They were seeking religion as a path of survival through the months of their imprisonment. Elizers faith was strong at the age of twelve as he was mentored by a man named Moshe the Beadle. Moshe was a man of all work at the Hasidic synagogue. He became the master of Eliezer. Moshe instructed him through Jewish mysticism, which was the god that was everywhere all the time and touched all aspects of life. The quote that Elizer follows through his time of need states “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.” It explains, that God finds silence the most troubling. This quote begins to show meaning , as a young boy was hung by the gestapo as the concentration camp was silent as a man ask where is god when he is needed and how can he can just sit and watch the horror of this tragedy. Eventually Elizer lost his belief in god but until that point he believed in god as a way to keep moving forward. The reason that god was so important was that a certain belief system that gives the inmates hope for liberation from the Nazis. All the inmates are looking for something or someone to believe that helped them carry on through time of

There are many metaphors that this book has, but, religion has to be one of the hardest metaphors to come across. It is clear, religion showed light in the darkness as it was something that kept people striving. Elizer showed strong support in the Jewish religion in total darkness. Until he entered the doors of Auschwitz and witnessed the horrific murders going on throughout the camp he started to believe that god has died with them as well. In the novel, Elizer begins to question gods method on watching over people. As his religion says god protects his children but he is not there to prove that he does watch over his flock of