Elie Weisels PersonalStruggle in Night
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Elie Weisel's Personal Struggle in Night
Elie Weisel was born in 1928 to a well-respected Orthodox Jewish family in Hungary. As a child and teen-ager, Elie was extremely interested in Judaism and studied the Torah, the Talmud, and the Cabbala. He regularly attended services at the synagogue, prayed to his God, and wept over the history of the Jews. He studied Jewish tradition faithfully and believed deeply in God. His faith was shattered at the hand of one man, Adolph Hitler, and his plan to exterminate all European Jews. Night is the story of Eliezer Weisel's loss of faith in man's humanity and in his God.
Elie's loss of faith in his fellow man began as a result of Nazi anti-Semitism. Jews were persecuted and tortured as a result of the prejudice Hitler held against them. During his stay in various concentration camps, he witnessed and endured the worst kind of man's inhumanity toward his fellow man. Prisoners were beaten, tortured, starved, and murdered...