The Effects of the Holocaust On Wiesel’s Faith In early 1944 the town of Sighet, Transylvania was overran by the Nazi war regime as it rapidly expanded across Europe and parts of Asia. In this town a young religious man named Elie Wiesel was questioning the intent of the German army and the rumors that were circling about them. Although he had heard that the Germans were planning mass genocide of the Jewish race, the …showed first 75 words of 682 total…

…showed last 75 words of 682 total…felt that because of all the torture that the Jews were subjected to their continued praise proved that they were ignorant to the fact that God was not a source of supreme justice. Wiesel continued to despise God for the remainder of the Holocaust, yet from this new independence he found power. “I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused…I was terribly alone in a world without god and without man.”5