“There was no God in Auschwitz. There were such horrible conditions that God decided not to go there.” Linda Breder-Holocaust Survivor. If one day, suddenly, the population of Rio de Janeiro disappeared, people would notice almost immediately. However, when six million Jews were killed in concentration camps during World War II, people turned a blind eye, even though they were fully aware of what was happening. Elie Wiesel was among the people who disappeared during the night and was one of the lucky survivors. Ten years later, he wrote about his experience in his memoir Night. In the memoir, one of the main themes is faith, or the lack thereof. When some prisoners lose their faith, they also lose the will to live. For young Elie Wiesel, faith is the only thing he focuses on. Then, when he loses his faith, he almost gives up but manages to carry on without the help of his God. At the beginning of the memoir Night, Wiesel talks about how strongly he believed in his faith. He states “I believed deeply” (1). Even at a young age, all Wiesel focused on was his faith: “In the past, Rosh Hashanah had dominated my life. I knew that my sins grieved the Almighty and therefore I begged for forgiveness. In those days I fully believed that the salvation of the world depended on my every action, on every prayer of mine” ( ). Wiesel wanted to study Kabbalah even at the age of twelve; his father, however, would not allow it. Wiesel spent twelve years of his life strengthening his faith, but only a year in concentration camps was enough to break it down. Even before he arrived in the camps, his faith slowly began to fade “I looked at my home where I had spent years seeking my God…Yet I felt sadness….middle of paper…. .It was an absolutely horrible experience, Wiesel still took it as a learning opportunity. For this reason, Wiesel is now a strong supporter of humanitarian causes and urges others to be so. People often forget that although there may be humans in some places, that doesn't mean humanity exists. Even though faith is still a part of Wiesel's life today, he continues to look at it with a skeptical eye. Because of the events that happened in those concentration camps, something that was whole in his life will never have all the pieces again. Surviving a tragic event like the Holocaust without a support system to lean on is a feat that many people could not do. Wiesel thought and did things that one person shouldn't be able to do, such as losing faith almost completely and then returning to it. This is just one of the many things Wiesel managed to do and overcome.