The Nazis caused way more destruction by not just killing innocent Jews; the Nazis destroyed their faith, peace, and humanity. All illustrated in Elie’s Wiesel’s Night, sharing his experiences in the concentration camps. Wiesel begins to question his strong faith in God as he survives the horror of the concentration camps. He loses his perspective as a human being by being treated like an animal instead of a human being, this shows the existence of evil. Throughout the book, the author Elie Wiesel as well as many of the prisoners, lost their faith in God.
The first example of Elie losing his faith is when he arrived at Auschwitz. It is here where they are seperated from the rest of the family and is forced to witness a crematory. In the beginning Elie believes that everything is a rumor, a lie, that humankind cannot perform such crimes, but he soon is forced to witness the demise in front of his eyes. This is when his outlook on his faith starts to waver.
While watching the smoke billow up from a crematory, Elie hears a man standing next to him begging him to pray, and for the first time in his life Wiesel turns away from God. “The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (Wiesel 31) Another example of Elie losing his faith was when the pipel was hung in front of the whole camp. The hanging of the pipel was extremely slow, and the prisoners were forced to watch until he took his last breaths.
“And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.” (Wiesel, 65) The hanging of the young pipel, or “the sad-eyed angel” (Wiesel, 64), as Elie describes him, shows him wondering where God is to save that innocent child as he desperately watches. “He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me I heard the same man ask where is God now? And I heard a voice within me answer him: Where is He? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows?” (Wiesel 62)
