Fate plays a huge role in Wiesel's survival, as the death of his
             parents and sister clearly illustrate. Wiesel struggled to survive, and
             learned how to play the game of survival with the Germans, by working hard
             in the electrical warehouse, and outsmarting them when they send him back
             to the camp from work. The deaths of others create a stunning lack of will
             to live in the boy, and he survived not because of his determination, but
             also simply because of fate. He and his family did not reach Auschwitz
             until 1944, and when he finally lost his father and the will to live,
             shortly after, the camp was liberated. His determination helped him
             through the worst times, but fate, and the combination of occurrences that
             kept him alive while others died, certainly had a major hand in his
             survival. After his father died, he certainly could have died too, and
             perhaps, if the war had lasted much longer, he would not have been able to
             tell his story. However, fate intervened, and his story is now
             Human agency plays little role in the horrors of the Holocaust,
             because most of the world refused to believe what was happening to the Jews
             throughout Europe, and the people themselves refused to listen to the
             stories that turned out to be true. In addition, the Germans who
             participated could have revolted or refused had they done so en masse, but
             they did not. They simply carried out their orders, and ignored the human
             and real implications of what they were doing. In seems inhumane and evil
             now, but at the time, the Germans, for the most part, did not believe what
             they were doing was wrong. There was no humanity in that decision, and no
             human agency came into play to save the Jews. As Wiesel's father bitterly
             notes, "'Humanity' Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is
             allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories."'" (Wiesel 43).
             Certainly, the human condition ...