Technically only healthy people should fast and it can be argued that no one in a concentration camp is healthy enough to deprive themselves of food. In the camp the Jews get so little food it is like they are fasting everyday. Wiesel states “To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death” (69). Many if not all of them would be considered underweight and malnourished and fasting would kill them much faster. A person should only fast if they have been eating regularly and the prisoners need all the food they can