In this quote from the book “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”(pg 4) Eliezer compared praying to living and breathing. To live you have to breath, so basically what he is saying is that he has to pray in order to live. Prayer means everything to him. He even asks Moishe to teach him more about his faith.
Unfortunately, Eliezer’s life changes suddenly when the Nazis invade Poland. He finds himself in a concentration camp without hope of escape. The genocide he witnessed