| A | B |
| author of Night | Elie Wiesel |
| Sighet/Transylvania | place of Wiesel's birth |
| Nobel Prize won by Wiesel | Peace |
| Work of Jewish mysticism taught to Eliezer | Cabbala |
| warns the villagers of the Nazi threat | Moshe the Beadle |
| sees visions of furnaces and fire | Madame Schachter |
| infamous Nazi doctor | Dr. Mengele |
| Jewish prayer for the dead | Kaddish |
| Eliezer's youngest sister | Tzipora |
| a young musician with a violin | Juliek |
| narrator of Night | Eliezer |
| two brothers that befriend Eliezer | Tibi and Yosi |
| Eliezer's father | Chlomo |
| 1st unit for Eliezer | music |
| forces Eliezer to give up his gold crown | Franek the foreman |
| selection | a sentence to death |
| Chlomo's gift to Eliezer | knife and fork |
| liberation of Buchenwald | April 1945 |