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The thought of families being separated from each other is scary. It's especially scary when you're a little you dont know what's happening. This applies to self preservation vs. family commitment because, it shows how Elie didn't want to be separated from  father because he was afraid of what could happen if he is alone.

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When Elie seen the bodies being dumped out on the side of the road, he began to lose faith due to the horrifying images going through his mind. Thinking how could someone let this happen.

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When they first get to the camps, all the men and the women have to go in different direction and are separated from their families. " An SS came toward us wielding a club.he commanded: 'Men to the left! Women to the right!' Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother. There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand press against mine: we were alone. In a fraction of a second i could see my mother my sisters move to the right. Tzipora was holding my mother's hand. I saw them walking farther away;mother was stroking my sister's blonde hair as if to protect her" (Wiesel 29).

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"It happened on the road. we lost sight of one another during the journey. I fell behind a little, at the rear of the column. I didn't have the strength to run anymore. And my son didn't notice. That's all I know. Where has he disappeared? Where can I find him? Perhaps you've seen him somewhere?"(Wiesel 91)

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Rabbi Eliahou represents self preservation vs. family commitment because, he shows that no matter how hard it was he never gave up looking for his son that left him when everyone was taken to the camps.

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This is an example of losing one's faith because it shows how god was not existent to Elie while he was in the concentration camps. But also it shows how he had his plans for Elie to live through it all.

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"Don't give in!" my father tried to encourage him."You must resist! Don't lose faith in yourself!"(Wiesel 102).

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http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust

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https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005142

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This character exemplifies self preservation vs. family commitment because he makes Wiesel choose between himself or his dad. He makes the decision to chose his dad, because he doesn't want to be taken away from him, but toward the end he can't figure out if he's really worth all the trouble and pain he went through.

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"But no sooner had we taken a few more steps than we saw the barbed wire of another camp. This one had an iron gate with the overhead inscription: Arbeit Macht Frei. Work makes you free. Auschwitz"(Wiesel 40).
This explains when Elie first gets to the camp, he doesn't know that his whole perspective is going to change about everything. About God, himself, his father, his mother, his sister, everyone.

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"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed."(Wiesel 34).
This explains that when Elie had been in the camps for a while, he noticed that they started to get worse and that he really couldn't do anything about it. So he begins to lose his faith because he knows that god can't help him.

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Themes: Losing One's Faith & Self Preservation vs. Family Commitment