Having faith in something can help you survive in difficult times. Elie and his family were taken from their home to the Auschwitz concentration camp. His mother and sisters are killed and he and his father go to the labor camp. They receive little food and are transported to many camps. Elie undergoes surgery for a foot injury. Eventually his father dies of illness and he is freed. Elie survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience: first by believing in God, then by resisting his faith in God, and finally by replacing his faith with obligation to his father. Elie survives the Holocaust by believing in God. Elie talks about Moishe the Beadle and how the citizens helped the needy but didn't like them, Moishe was the exception. “By day I studied the Talmud and at night I ran to the synagogue to cry over the destruction of the Temple” (p.3). Elie dedicates much of his time to study and prayer. He spends a lot of his time studying and praying, so he must believe strongly in God. He gives more importance to religion than education. Elie asks his father to find him a teacher to teach him Kabbalah, but his father says he is too young to learn it. His father wanted to put the idea of ​​learning Kabbalah out of his mind. “I managed to find myself a master in the person of Moishe the Beadle” (p.4). Elie really wants to learn more about God and study Kabbalah even though his father says no, so he finds a teacher on his own. He has a strong faith in God, which is why he found a teacher despite his father telling him he is too young to learn it. Moishe the Priest had seen him pray one day and asked him some questions. He explains to Elie that the answers to his question lie within him. “Why did I pray? Strange question... middle of paper... says he has a father and forgot about him in the crowd. “I knew he was without strength, close to death, yet I had abandoned him” (p.106). Elie feels guilty for leaving his father when he needed Elie most. After waking up, he goes to find his father. He feels like he is responsible for taking care of his father. Elie replaces his faith with an obligation to his father to help him survive the Holocaust. Elie survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience: first by believing in God, then by resisting his faith in God, and finally by replacing his faith with obligation to his children. father. Elie survived the holocaust by fighting with his inner voice. He witnessed people who lost their faith and died like Akiba Drumer and Meir Katz. His father helped him get through the Holocaust by giving him something to live for and support.