Faith, it is what some people grasp on to in the time of despair. For Elie Wiesel faith was a hard thing to keep a hold of. Elie was in some situations that made him lose his faith in God. After the experiences Elie lived through will he ever regain his faith for God?
             In a recent interview Elie said, "I come from a small city somewhere in Eastern Europe. I come from a place where every Jew was drunk with God, those whose faith was burning as was burning the vision of the first Jew in history". As a young child Elie was eager to learn of religion, starting with the studies of the Cabbala, which his father thought he was too young to learn. Elie's father was also a religious man and many people in the community looked up to him. With a combination of home and school, Elie learned from an early age to have a belief in God.
             "We had to go to school, so we went to school too, but I received the main impact from my religious schools as a child. We studied the five books of Moses (the Pentateuch) and then, again, Talmud and Hasidic stories. At home we didn't study the prophets
             that much. My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud" (interview).
             Elie had a strong belief in God. What Elie is about to experience in the next few months of his life may change his whole belief in God?
             The town of Sighet was a normal Jewish community, the business men doing business, the student's buried in their books, children playing in the streets, and Elie studying the Talmud. But everyone's life was about to be changed; the Gestapo entered their town. The Gestapo was common designation of the terrorist political police of the Nazi regime in Germany. The Gestapo divided the town of Sighet into two ghettos. This didn't have a significant difference in Elie's life because he was still with his family. "V
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