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Nigh Character List
Description | Name |
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is the narrrator of Night. He is a Jewish boy of 12 at the end of 1941 and 15 when he enter the concentration camps | Eliezer (Elie) |
Elie's father who is respected by the entire Jewish communtiy and by his son as well | Chlomo |
Elie's teacher of Jewish mysticism | Moshe the Beadle |
a Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps | Akiba Drumer |
A Jewish woman who is deported along with her 10-year old son in the same cattle car as Elie. | Madame Schachter |
A young musician whom Elie meets in Auschwitz | Juliek |
Two brothers with whom Elie becomes very friendly in Buna. | Tibi and Yosi |
A cruel doctor who presides over the selection of arrivals at Auschwitz/Birkenau. | Dr. Josef Mengele |
Elie's Kapo at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna | Idek |
Eliezer's cruel forman at Buna | Franek |
A devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him in the march to Gleiwitz | Rabbi Eliahou |
One of Elie's fellow prisoners | Zalman |
Chlomo's friend from Buna | Meri Katz |
Elie's relative from Antwerp, Belgium, whom he and his father encounter in Auschwitz | Stein |
Eliezer's older sister | Hilda |
Eliezer's middle sister | Bea |
Eliezer's youngest sister | Tzipora |