Faith is confidence or trust in an otherworldly being, person, thing or an obligation of loyalty. Before the Holocaust the Jewish communities throughout Europe continued to practice their faith and their faith in humanity as well. When the Holocaust took its grasp on the world, it broke down people and simultaneously made people stronger. The effect of this on the Jewish Communities differed from community to community, but the overall fact of it all was that some took it on themselves as a way to strengthen their overall faith in god and in humanity and be optimistic while others took upon themselves to become pessimistic and let that slowly diminish their faith. In the memoir Night by Eliezer Wiesel, Elie had lost complete faith, in himself,
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He allowed these experiences to change the way he thought. An example of this would be when Wiesel said “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (Wiesel 33) For this reason, this quote shows him losing faith is because for it was the first time in the book he had questioned his God, he questioned why God would do this to so many innocent people. He had always learned great things about God so whenever he saw that all of this horrors that had happened to innocent people then he began to question whether what he had learned was truthful or not. Another example of losing faith would be, “The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.” (Wiesel 29) This is another example because this is when he is just getting off of the train and everything that they owned they had to leave behind. He was losing faith in his future, in what would happen to him and to the others. Another example of the way pessimistic views can affect someone 's faith would be "I 've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He 's the only one who 's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." ( Wiesel 81) Everything that they had thought that they would have and would have helped them through some tough times was simultaneously left behind and thrown
He allowed these experiences to change the way he thought. An example of this would be when Wiesel said “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (Wiesel 33) For this reason, this quote shows him losing faith is because for it was the first time in the book he had questioned his God, he questioned why God would do this to so many innocent people. He had always learned great things about God so whenever he saw that all of this horrors that had happened to innocent people then he began to question whether what he had learned was truthful or not. Another example of losing faith would be, “The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.” (Wiesel 29) This is another example because this is when he is just getting off of the train and everything that they owned they had to leave behind. He was losing faith in his future, in what would happen to him and to the others. Another example of the way pessimistic views can affect someone 's faith would be "I 've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He 's the only one who 's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." ( Wiesel 81) Everything that they had thought that they would have and would have helped them through some tough times was simultaneously left behind and thrown