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...e extremely crowed and after many days of traveling food became a question for all. The Jews finally stopped in Auschwitz where they would spend time in one of many German concentration camps. Immediately Elie was separated from his mother and sisters but was able to be with his father. Little did he know at the time he would ever see his mother and sisters again. The horrible graphic descriptions Wiesel displays the whole way the book were quite disturbing especially when it came down to low food and low moral. The Jews spend three years moving from camp to camp, where they get placed in different jobs, housing, and get new leaders. Every switch they get another medical exam making sure they are still physically able to do intense labor work. Near the end of the story the Russians are coming and the Jews and German leaders are forced to move to a different camp by foot. Through the blistering snow, Elie with his injured foot, and all the other Jews ran over forty-three miles where they still had to be carted by train for many days. The whole journey was completed with many people dieing as well as many very weak. Elie looses his father near the end because of the run and the lack or rest, food, and liquids he suffered. Elie came out of the camp alive at age fifteen with no family, and very little friends, left. Throughout the whole book many prayers were being made and many Jews talked about God and how or when he should come to help them. It seemed as through from Elie’s point of view that God wasn’t there for them, everything they had gone through and god didn’t try to help anyone of the Jews through it. If I myself would have endured such great pain both physically and mentally and God didn’t show any signs of his help or punishment of the evil, I too would have been loosing faith very quickly. This brings about the question “Just where is God in the midst of evil and suffering in the world?” Honestly that question really makes me think especially after reading this book. That poor child had to with stand so much at such a young age, and it seems as though God wasn’t there for him or his ...