| A | B |
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| Eliezer | The narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author |
| Chlomo | Eliezer's father |
| Moshe the Beadle | Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism, he is a poor Jew who lives in Sighet. He is deported before the rest of the Sighet Jews but escapes and returns to tell the town what the Nazis are doing to the Jews. Tragically, the community takes him for a lunatic. |
| Akiba Drumer | A Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as a result of his experiences in the concentration camp. |
| Madame Schächter | A Jewish woman from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer. She is taken for a madwoman when, every night, she screams that she sees furnaces in the distance. She proves to be a prophetess, however, as the trains soon arrive at the crematoria of Auschwitz. |
| Juliek | A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz. He reappears late in the memoir, when Eliezer hears him playing the violin after the death march to Gleiwitz. |
| Tibi and Yosi | Two brothers with whom Eliezer becomes friendly in Buna. They are Zionists. Along with Eliezer, they make a plan to move to Palestine after the war. |
| Dr. Josef Mengele | When he arrives at Auschwitz, Eliezer encounters the historically infamous man. He was the cruel doctor who presided over the selection of arrivals at Auschwitz/Birkenau. Known as the “Angel of Death,” His words sentenced countless prisoners to death in the gas chambers. He also directed horrific experiments on human subjects at the camp. |
| Idek | Eliezer’s Kapo (a prisoner conscripted by the Nazis to police other prisoners) at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna. Despite the fact that they also faced the cruelty of the Nazis, many Kapos were as cruel to the prisoners as the Germans. During moments of insane rage, he beats Eliezer. |
| Franek | Eliezer’s foreman at Buna. He notices Eliezer’s gold tooth and gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out with a rusty spoon. |
| Rabbi Eliahou | A devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him in one of many instances in Night of a son behaving cruelly toward his father. Eliezer prays that he will never behave as this man's son behaves. |
| Zalman | One of Eliezer’s fellow prisoners. He is trampled to death during the run to Gleiwitz. |
| Meir Katz | Eliezer’s father’s friend from Buna. In the cattle car to Buchenwald, he saves Eliezer’s life from an unidentified assailant. |
| Stein | Eliezer’s relative from Antwerp, Belgium, whom he and his father encounter in Auschwitz. Trying to bolster his spirit, Eliezer lies to him and tells him that his family is still alive and healthy. |
| Hilda | Eliezer’s oldest sister. |
| Béa | Eliezer’s middle sister. |
| Tzipora | Eliezer’s youngest sister. |
