Concentration Camps In Elie Wiesel's Night

Night by Elie Wiesel provided the world with a deep and painful insight to the horrors within the German lines. Throughout the novel, many lines tugged at the heart strings of audience members because they depicted true thoughts of Jewish captives during this time period. Though most of the novel described life in concentration camps, three lines truly portray the feelings, emotions and mindset Jews had under the Nazi regime.

"Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes..." (Wiesel 34). This line shows the impact concentration camps had on Wiesel's life, soul, and belief. As a child, Wiesel became Godless for he saw no God of his would allow this massacre to ensue. An impact of the life within camps was that his very soul shattered at the sight and smell of burning women and children, adults aging within a few days from malnutrition and exhaustion, and witnessing Jews everywhere being beaten, shot or dying of exhaustion.
He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people" (Wiesel 81). Wiesel no longer believed in God at this point, especially to have more faith in Hitler. He had given up hope and no longer felt as if he and his fellow Jews were going to feel the joys of freedom. For example, Hitler did keep his promise to the Jews, that they would suffer and pay for the hard times Germany had been through, so they had lost hope. They firmly believed God had given up on the Jewish community and hoped Hitler would soon complete his promise by ending their suffering once and for all. For this reason the quote was relevant to the memoir. It showed how much suffering and pain had managed to change Wiesel in to having more faith in Hitler than his own God for He had done nothing to prove His power by saving the Jews from the evil bestowed upon them. In conclusion, to Wiesel, not even God could keep his promises like Hitler had throughout his