During 1944, Europe was a very dangerous place to grow up. Adolf Hitler, who was the leader of Nazi Germany, had a vendetta to eliminate the Jewish inhabitants of Europe and everyone in the world. So being a Jew in any European country was a constant struggle of persecution and fear, because Hitler had absolutely no remorse and would do anything to eliminate the Jewish religion. Elie Wiesel was a young boy growing up in the small town of Sighet, Hungary. He was very religious and spent much of his time studying the Talmud and reading about the Jewish religion. He was an ambitious character and had very little hatred for anyone, he was also very open minded and very compassionate for everyone around him. But when the Nazis first took his family to the ghettos where they also moved all the Jews of Sighet, he began to hate and feel the pain of persecution. He was then also separated from his mother Sarah and his three sisters Hilda, Beatrice and Tzipora when he and his father were sent to Auschwitz where his inmate number was "A-7713". During his time in this concentration camp he began to question his faith in God and his belief in the good of humanity for the first time. Elie survived the Holocaust but suffered the horrors of seeing people die right before his eyes and the loss of his religion and his family. One of the major contributors to Elie's religious spirituality was the handyman of the city of Sighet, Moshe the Beadle. . Moshe taught Elie much about the Jewish religion and was a highly regarded figure in the community. But one day, unexpectedly, Moshe was expelled from Sighet because he was a foreign Jew. No one knew where he had been taken, but later rumors spread that they had been sent to Galicia to work, and that they were content with ... middle of paper ... ...having lost faith in a higher power when you're faced with an opportunity, and I realize how difficult it is to watch someone you care about become weak and helpless and know there's nothing you can do about it. I believe that Mr. Hulbert made us read this book, to better understand the darkness of this time. Having a survivor's story helps us gain knowledge of the wrongdoings of the Nazis and what the Jews had to go through. This book not only shows us the facts and passages but also the personal lives of those who were prisoners in these camps. Many prisoners faced the wickedness of the Nazis and lost their family members as well as their peace of mind due to the effects of the camps. Holocaust survivors would never be the same again because of the darkness of that time, and this story perfectly describes the darkness the prisoners were in and affected by..