Family may be one of the most unappreciated resources that people have. While most people think of their family as more an issue than a commodity, many of the children from the camps would disagree. For everyone living in concentration camps their family members are the last thing they have to remind them of their old life before they were taken away. Not everyone was able to keep their family alive. In one case on page 101-102 of Night, a man killed his own father for a piece of bread. The father told the son that the bread was for both of them to share, though this didn’t stop him from murdering his own father for just a couple pieces of bread. This example shows the pure brutality of these camps, and how they changed people to do horrific things to survive. Teamwork is key to surviving through the Holocaust with your family, if the father and son would have worked together they both could have survived through the Holocaust.

In many cases including Elie Wiesel’s your family doesn’t survive and you are left alone to survive on your own. In situations like this your chances of survival shrinks because there is nobody to keep you safe and watch your back. Losing your family can be one of the worst things that you can live through in your entire life. This pain is not lessened by the fact that that you are slowly being starved and worked to death. You can see this in Night on page 112. It was here where Elie father died, his death was the breaking point for Elie. What this means is that Elie lost all hope for survival and being rescued from these camps. Elie showed this by saying on page 113 that he no long cared about anything else in the world except getting his bread. This shows a difference from before when he was always worried about trying to save his father and avoid the kapos, which were people who had power and would in most cases made the lives of the prisoners as miserable as possible. Though the loss of family wasn’t a bad thing to some of the children from these camps.

In one case a child at the concentration camps became a pipel, a pipel is a young child who instead of living like every other child and works they instead serve as a servant to Oberkapos who are older men that act as counselor of different areas within the camps. In this case the pipel boy instead of using his power to make life for his father easier he instead treated his father worse than everyone else. An example of this is in Night on page 63, on this page the pipel threaten to have the father hung for the reason being he made the boys bed wrong. In most cases children are not given this kind of power, and if they are most treat their family’s with more respect than in that example.

During the length of the Holocaust over 6 million Jewish people were killed I concentration camps. Throughout the Holocaust most of the people don’t know where their next meal is coming from, though one thing that may help lessens the pain of everything was family.