Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg said: “Six million Jews were not murdered; there has been a murder, six million times.” The Holocaust is one of the most horrific events in human history, consisting of the genocide of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, the mentally handicapped, and many others during World War II. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany and his army of Nazis and SS troops carried out the terrible acts of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is a Jew who survived the Nazi extermination camps and experiences a relentless "night" of terror and torture in which humans were treated like animals. Wiesel discovers the “Kingdom of Night” (118), in which the history of the Jewish people is altered. This is Wiesel's "dark period of life" and during his journey into the night he cannot see the "light" at the end of the tunnel, only continued terror and darkness. Night is a memoir written in the style of a bildungsroman, a loss of innocence and a sad coming of age. This memoir reveals how Eliezer (Elie Wiesel) gradually loses his faith and his relationships with both his father (Dad) and his father (God). Disgusted by the torment he must endure, Wiesel wonders if God really exists: “Why, but why should I bless him? Why had he, in his great power, created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and many other factories of death? (67). During the Holocaust, Wiesel's faith was not permanently destroyed. Although after his father's death, his faith in God and religion was shaken to the core and probably disappeared. Wiesel, along with most of the prisoners, loses faith in God. Wiesel's loss of religion becomes the loss of identity, humanity, selfishness, and decency. From his childhood, Wiesel is extremely inter...... middle of paper ......sel about ten years old to write Night and believes he has a moral obligation to “try to prevent the enemy from enjoying a final victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory” (viii). Wiesel is a mentally strong person because for most Holocaust survivors, telling is reliving. In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, Wiesel seems to have emerged from the “night” and to have faith in God: “But I have faith. Faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and also in His creation” (120). At the end of the book, Wiesel gathers enough strength to look at himself through a mirror: “From the bottom of a mirror, a corpse gazed at me. The look in his eyes has never left me” (115). Even though he is alive inside, from what he sees in the mirror, he is dead. It is our responsibility to prevent an event of this magnitude from happening again.