In the horror of the Nazi death camps portrayed in Night, Elie Wiesel and his fellow Jews had to struggle to maintain their "faith in life." This battle that they waged against "icy winds" in camps where "death was all around [them]" was a constant necessity for them to continue to survive. Harsh as it was many Jews failed, and losing their faith in life died; yet many more, like Elie, found the strength to sustain that faith and live on. By sustaining their tenuous links to a makeshift Jewish community within the camps, taking comfort in their religion where possible, and at all costs attempting to keep hope alive, Elie and his colleagues found the strength to endure and shelter what meager faith they still had in life, and to survive.
             For the Jews in the death camps of Auschwitz, Buna, Birkenan and Gleiwitz, faith in life was one of the few values the Nazi's could not strip from them. As much as the Nazis attempted to dehumanize the Jews by stripping them of their possessions, identities and lives, a process which for Elie "turned [his] life into one long night." For many their faith in life was still undiminished. On a long forced march, Elie's body begins to succumb to the cold, and yet at the same time "[Elie] felt something inside [him] revolt" against dying. Even then deprived of nutrition and humanity, Elie's primal instinct keeps him alive, providing an unspoken force to drive him onwards, fuelled by an un-named, unjustified desire to live. Such faith in life, an unquestioning faith in the need to simply live and to continue to strive to live even against all odds, burned within every Jew as they fought for their survival by themselves or with others in a world of death.
             The intimate bonding between the Jewish community served to assure many Jews of the worth of life. Such community strength was a foundation laid by their culture, their everyday life that li
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