Over 1.1 million children died during the holocaust, Young children were particularly targeted by the Nazis to be murdered during the Holocaust. They posed a unique threat because if they lived, they would grow up to parent a new generation of Jews. Many children were suffocated in the crowded cattle cars on the way to the camps. Those who survived were immediately taken to the gas chambers. Night a memoir by Elie Wiesel, is taken place in the year 1941, it was about a young boy that was born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania. He expresses his tragical experience in this book about what his family, friends, and other Jews had gone threw in the holocaust. Elie tells us how what he had gone throw should never happen again. Elie lost his faith when he saw burning flesh, when the Jewish yeah was over, when the Jews were going to fast. …show more content…
The almighty, the eternal and terrible master of the universe, chose to be silent, what was there to thank him for’ ” (Wiesel 33) If there really is a god then why would he let such people burn to death why wouldn't he do something? say something? Anyone would have serious doubts when experiencing something like that. The second example of Elie losing his faith is Some of the Jews had gathered they sang a few songs, while some of the guys talked about God, As for Elie, “ [he] had ceased to pray. [he] concurred with job! [he] was not denying his existence, but [he] doubted his absolute justice. (45) the prisoners talked about how God was testing them, that he loved them deeply, but Elie didn't think that, it would be hard to thinking that being in a death