Cazadores De Sombras

restaurants, café's, and stores. They also were sent to live in ghettos where all Jews were kept. Not to long after living in the ghetto, Wiesel and his family were transported to the death camp Auschwitz. Wiesel and his father were separated from his mother and sister when they arrived at Auschwitz. Wiesel and his father were ordered to strip naked. They had their heads shaved, and they were given new clothes. They were at Auschwitz to work. If they did not work they would be sent to the crematorium and be killed. The crematorium was where people were thrown into pits of fire to be burned alive. Wiesel and his father were given little food. They were given black coffee in the morning and bread and soup later in the day. They spent three weeks in Auschwitz; then they were transported to the concentration camp Buchenwald. Wiesel and his father were held in concentration camps for over a year before the Russian front began to move in. Buchenwald was liberated in April, 1945. Wiesel's father died of dysentery not long before the Jews were liberated.

During the year Wiesel spent in concentration camps, he lost his faith in God, lost his innocence, and went through more terrifying things then could ever be imagined. Wiesel lost his faith in God while he was in the death camps of Auschwitz: "My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long" (68). Wiesel rebels against God and he does not understand why God is letting all of these horrible things happen to the Jewish people. The Jews are continually praising his name, even as all these horrible things are happening to them. "But look at these men whom you have betrayed, what do they do? They pray before you! They praise your name!"(68).

Wiesel also loses his innocence the first day he reaches the death camp at Auschwitz. "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky" (34). Wiese