| A | B |
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| Eliezer | The narrator of Night and the memoir’s author |
| Chlomo | Eliezer's father |
| Moshe the Beadle | Eliezer’s teacher of Kabbalah |
| Akiba Drumer | A Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God. |
| Madame Schächter | A Jewish woman from Sighet who is She is taken fShe screams that she sees furnaces in the distance. |
| Juliek | Eliezer hears him playing the violin after the death march to Gleiwitz. |
| Tibbi and Yossi | Along with Eliezer, they make a plan to move to Palestine after the war. |
| Dr. Josef Mengele | He was the cruel doctor who presided over the selection of arrivals at Auschwitz/Birkenau. |
| Idek | During moments of insane rage, he beats Eliezer. |
| Franek | He notices Eliezer’s gold tooth and gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out with a rusty spoon. |
| Rabbi Eliahou | His son abandons him in one of many instances in Night of a son behaving cruelly toward his father. |
| Zalman | He is trampled to death during the run to Gleiwitz. |
| Meir Katz | In the cattle car to Buchenwald, he saves Eliezer’s life. |
| Stein | 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. |
| Kapo | A prisoner who policed other prisoners |
| Yom Kippur | Holiday in which Jews fast |
| Rosh Hashanah | The Jewish New Year |
