Babies.
Shortly after arriving at Birkenau Elie Wiesel saw "babies" burning in a pit. It is not made clear whether or not these babies were dead or alive, or were young children rather than actual infants. This is what "murders his God".
PIT is pitches thrown or pitch count.
Jeremiah.
Elie witnessed babies and young children burning in the pit during the Holocaust. The sight of children being brutally murdered haunted him throughout his life and played a significant role in shaping his outlook on humanity and the world.
Well you know in the beginning of the book he was very prayerful and religious but by the end he lost his faith and stop praying.... All he was doing now, Was questioning GOD and himself ~Daffy~
When Elie and his father are marched into Auschwitz he learns of the crematoriums and what their fate is to be. He sees a large burning pit. Within the pit are burning bodies. He sees people throwing babies and small children into the fire.
First the brothers of Joseph wanted to kill him. But the eldest brother Reuben, said why do this evil deed , lets bury him in a pit. The idea of Reuben was to save him later. But when Reuben was not there the brothers sold him to traders.
he was thrown into a pit full of bubbling, molten dump by Mark Twain in 2012
A barathrum is a pit corresponding to an abyss, or to hell, especially one in Athens into which criminals would be thrown.
When he was sentenced to death by a court for impiety, he was given the choice of suicide or the normal one of having his throat cut and being thrown into a garbage pit. He chose to drink hemlock.
Jeremiah was not beaten by family in the Bible. You are probably thinking of Joseph who was beat by his other brothers and thrown into a pit, eventually being sold in bondage - see Genesis 37.
What prompts him to do this is his curiosity, a good quality to have as a writer. He decides to go at night because during the day, the bodies had already been covered with dirt and he also wanted to see the bodies being thrown into the pit.