This book is the candid, horrific, autobiographical account of Elie Wiesel’s survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. A scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how could the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur?