What decisions were Elie Wiesel forced to make?

Due to
his horrific experiences of life in a Nazi concentration camp, Eliezer is forced to make a
decision regarding his faith. Before his family was deported from their hometown of Sighetm
Eliezer was always a devout Jew and would never have dreamed in a million years that he would
ever question the faith of his forefathers, the faith of his people.

Yet over
time, and in the wake of so much unimaginable horror, Eliezer is forced to the painful
conclusion that there is no God and that he can no longer, in good conscience, remain a
practicing Jew. A number of events, each more shocking and soul-destroying than the last,
gradually erode Elie's faith. But the one that has the greatest impact of all is the slow,
painful death of a little boy, hanged by the Nazis for helping to destroy an electrical plant
and for possessing weapons.

As Elie witnesses the boy's agonizing death
throes, he wonders where God is, before answering his own question in the most emphatic of
terms:

Where is He? He is...