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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.” (Wiesel 32). Elie Wiesel wrote his memoir Night about his eleven months in a Nazi concentration camp, which he compared to one long night. In the concentration camps he was subjected to physical and mental harm, which no human should ever have to endure. Wiesel’s memoir Night illustrates how his experiences in the Holocaust caused him to lose innocence, develop family bonds, and lose faith in religion.
There comes a time in every individual’s life when a tragic event results in the loss of innocence. During World War 2, the Holocaust robbed Jewish children like Wiesel of their innocence. Before the Holocaust, Wiesel described himself as an ordinary and innocent teenager. After he was imprisoned in the concentration camp due to the simple fact he was Jewish, Elie witnessed an extraordinary amount of inhumanity that robbed him of his innocence. One significant event that contributed to depriving his innocence was the mass murder that took place. While in the camp, Elie saw smoke from burning bodies day after day. “Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.” (Wiesel 32). The burning of the Jewish played a major role in the robbing of Elie’s innocence. Witnessing these murders exposed the young man to the evil the Nazis committed. Elie was a young and impressionable boy who was a witness of pure evil. Witnessing the evil contributed to his loss of innocence. “When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and son. I was fifteen tears old” (Wiesel 95). Wiesel saw corpses of a father and son that could have ...

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...ces took away his ability to believe and have faith in religion. Elie’s experiences revealed the evil in the world, which took away his faith and connection to God.
When the holocaust concluded, the long night finished. However, the terrors and haunting memories of the Holocaust will forever linger. After the prisoners were beaten endlessly, worked like slaves, witnessed acts of inhumanity and gave up body parts for their lives, Elie changed. The young man lost his faith, innocence, and Elies main focus became the survival of himself and father. Through Wiesel’s horrific experiences, he lost many things but gained the will and ability to persevere. All in all, Night is a book that will never be forgotten. Wiesel wrote the memoir to guarantee remembrance of the discrimination and inhumanity during the holocaust to ensure a similar event will never transpire again.