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"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into onelong night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Nevershall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smokebeneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire tolive. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned mydreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God The Holocaust-the mass murder of European Jews by the Nazis during World War II. Itwas the unthinkable, the horrific murder of 6 million Jews and millions of civilians of differentethnic and racial backgrouds. It was average men entering the German army and turned intoNazis, cold-blooded killers. It was the connotation of Holocaust which became Night, by ElieWiesel. This paints a picture, full of vivid imagery and truth, about the genocide of his ownpeople. Elie witnesses the starvation, brutal beating, and eventual death
Yet his family, community, and his innocent faith were destroyedupon the deportation of his village in 1944. During this time of losing faith in religion and overcoming the tasks put forth by theconcentration camps, Elie finds strength of survival through his relationship with his father andthrough hope. " (101) Elie had becomehardened by his new way of life, and realized that only the fittest would emerge from thisexperience still alive and well. " Some kinships are not like Elie's and his father's. Elie is taught to question God for answers through Moshe's instruction. The Jews were separated from their loved ones who wereimmediately sent to the crematory or burned in large fire pits. One of the main topics in this book is how Elie, a boy of strong religious faith, along withmany of his fellow jews, lose their faith in God due to the horrific effects of the concentrationcamps. This process is concerned with separating the young, strong, and healthy Jews, from theold, weak, sickly, and/or infants. One ofwhom was a child, so mere in weight, whom struggled amidst the others for over an hour beforedeath came to take him. Here the reader can sense the collosal loss that Elie is overcome by,having spent the majority of his childhood seeking salvation only to come to realize it was all awaste of time. Eventually he makes aquaintances with Moshe the Beadle whotakes Elie under his wing, and also instructs him more in depth of the ways of the Talmud andcabbala. This is a foreshadowing of what will become of Elie's faith in the strengthand power of God. He feels less and lessremorse for his father and begins to believe that the beatings his father receives for not beingable to peform the various tasks put forth by the S.
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