od. Even as the Jews were being deported, they expressed their faith in God to save them from the Nazis. To understand the Holocaust through the eyes of Eliezer, one must follow his path of lost faith in God. At Auschwitz, when he first spotted the furnace pits in which the babies burned, he began to doubt God. Eliezer asked himself, “Why should I bless His name? What had I to thank him for?” Eliezer at this point felt that God betrayed him because God was not there to stop the horrible events. With the lasting impact of that night, Eliezer went on to state, “Never shall I forget that night…which has turned my life into one long night…Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever…that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget this moments which murdered my God…Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself.” That night was the turning point of Eliezer’s faith in God. Eliezer told a story where two prisoners were suspected of being involved with a resistance along with a young boy, who was a servant of a resistance member. As the prisoners watched the child strangle on the end of the noose, they began to tear. One man even starts to wonder how God could be present in a world with such cruelty. This was a symbolic enactment of the murder of God. “Where is He? Eliezer asks, “He is hanging here on this gallows.” In the mind of Eliezer, God does not exist in a world where an innocent child can be hanged on the gallows. Being a witness to the hanging of the child, Eliezer’s faith had fallen to the lowest point. God had been murdered on the gallows alongside the child. At the end of the summer in 1944 brings the Jewish Holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. On these special days, Eliezer felt his lost of faith intensify. He coul...
