Having faith in something can help you survive difficult times. Elie and his family were taken from their home to the Auschwitz concentration camp. His mother and sisters were killed and he and his father were sent to a labor camp. They receive little food and are transported to numerous camps. Elie is operated on for a foot injury. Eventually his father dies of illness and he is released. Elijah survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience – first by believing in God, then by resisting his faith in God, and finally by replacing his faith with an obligation to his father. Elijah survives the Holocaust by believing in God. Elijah talks about Moishe the Beadle and how the locals helped the needy but didn't love them, Moishe was the exception. “During the day I studied the Talmud and at night I ran to the synagogue to mourn the destruction of the Temple” (p. 3). Elijah spends much of his time studying and praying. He spends much of his time studying and praying, so he must firmly believe in God. He places more importance on religion than education. Elie asks his father to find him a teacher to teach him Kabbalah, but his father says he is too young to learn it. His father wanted to put the idea of ​​learning Kabbalah out of his mind. “I managed to find myself a master in the person of Moishe the Beadle” (p.4). Elijah really wants to learn more about God and study Kabbalah even though his father says no, so he finds a teacher on his own. He has a strong belief in God, which is why he found a teacher even though his father tells him he is too young to learn it. Moishe the Beadle had seen him praying one day and asked him some questions. He explains to Elie that the answers to his question are found within him. “Why did I pray? Strange that...... middle of paper ......bers that he has a father and that he forgot him in the crowd. “I knew he was exhausted, close to death, and yet I had abandoned him” (p. 106). Elie feels guilty for leaving his father when he needed Elie the most. After waking up, he goes looking for his father. He feels responsible for taking care of his father. Elijah replaces his faith with an obligation to his father to help him survive the holocaust. Elijah survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience – first believing in God, then resisting his faith in God, and finally replacing his faith with an obligation to his father. father. Elijah survived the holocaust through a battle with his inner voice. He saw people lose their faith and die like Akiba Drumer and Meir Katz. His father helped him through the Holocaust by giving him sustenance and support..