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Submitted by irishv35 on November 21, 2005
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Victor Muscia
Holocaust Class
8/2/05
Night
By: Elie Wiesel
I believe “Night” shows the religious view of the Holocaust and how many Jews including Elie lost their faith in God while going through such the nightmare of Auschwitz and the other camps. I think the main reason why Elie stayed alive as long as he did was because he didn't want to leave behind his father not because of his faith in God. Throughout the book Elie speaks of his loss of faith in the Lord and doesn't understand how, if there was a God, he could allow such dreadful and inhumane actions by the Nazi's continue or even happen in the first place.
This is one topic that I believe Botwinick does not cover in her book. She talks of Einsatzgruppen, the mobile killing squads, in which in “Night” Moshe the Beadle miraculously escapes from. She talks about how the Hungarians Jews were sent to Auschwitz for annihilation, and she even speaks about “the death march” in which the remaining survivors at Auschwitz were forced to march mile after to mile in the snow leaving many dead behind them. All of which were obstacles that Elie faced throughout the book. Yet Botwinick never discusses the many Jews who lost their faith in God while trying to survive in Auschwitz or any other concentration camp. Maybe because there were some Jews who still held on to their religion, but it seemed to me after reading “Night” that many wanted nothing to do with God after seeing their own people being burnt alive and the other atrocities that happened in the camps. Also in Primo Levi's book “Survival in Auschwitz” there are very few references made about God and Primo's religious faith. Maybe that was mainly because Levi and Wiesel came from two totally different areas with very different religious backgrounds. Being from Italy Levi I believe was more a liberal Jew as to Elie he and his family were more the traditional Orthodox Judaism. Or maybe it was just that...
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