NightWritten by Eliezer Wiesel
...ews are treated just as harshly and inhumanly as convicts, though they had done nothing wrong other then be in the wrong place at the wrong time. These actions cause many to lose their faith. When they arrive at Birkenau, the men are separated from the women. This is the last time Eliezer sees his mother and sisters. The Germans then sort the males by strength. Elie and his father think they are being sent to the crematory. As a lorry draws up to a pit, Elie sees that it is full of dead children. He sees the guards dump the bodies into the burning pit. He hears someone behind him begin to say the death prayer. “For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?” (Page 31) Elie decides that he will not let his father watch him burn, that he would rather die upon the barbed wire. Three steps away from the burning pit, mentally he says good-bye to the world and everyone in it and says the death prayer in spite of himself. Two steps away they are ordered to turn away into a barracks. “Never shall I forget those flames,” he said, “which consumed my faith forever.”(Page 32) There are other actions that tried Elie’s Faith. One is the hangings in the camp that he is forced to watch. On one occasion, two adults and a child are to be hung. The three climb onto the chairs with ropes around their necks. A voice from behind Elie asks, “Where is God? Where ...