Night

By Justin Ehrenpreis

Author

Elie Wiesel

Setting

Sighet, Transylvania

(Romania, Hungary)

Characters

By Justin Ehrenpreis

Tibi and Yosi

Two brothers whom Eliezer becomes in Buna. Tibi and Yosi are along with Eliezer, they plan to move to Palestine war.

Dr. Josef Mengele

Wiesel arrives at Auschwitz. Eliezer encounters the historical, infamous Dr. Mengele. Mengele was cruel doctor who ve is part with the selection of the arrival Auchwitz/ Birkenaw. Known as “Angle of Death”, Mengele sentenced countless prisoners to dear in gas chambers. He also directed horrific experiments on human subjects

Idek

Eliezer’s Kapo (a prisoner conscripted by Nazis, police other prisoners in Buna. Despite the fact that they also faced the cruel Nazis, many Kapos were as cruel to prisoners as Germans. During moments rage, Idek beats Eliezer

Franek

Eliezer’s foreman at Buna. Franek notices Eliezers gold toothand gets it extracted at the camp.

Rabbi Eliahou

Devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him in one of many in Night of a son behaving cruelly towards his father. Eliezer prays that he will never be like Rabbi Eliahou’s sons behaves

Zalman

One of Eliezer’s fellow prisoners. Zalman is trampled to death during Gleiwitz

Meir Katz

Eliezer’s father’s friend from Buna. In cattle car to Buchenwald, Katz Eliezer’s life from an unidentified assailant

Stein

Eliezer’s relative from Antwerp. Belgiun, whom he and his father encounters in Aushwitz. Trying to bolster his spirit, Eliezer lies to Stein and tells him that his family is alive and healthy.

Hilda

Eliezer’s oldest sister

Bea

Eliezer’s middle sister

Tzipora

Elizer’s youngest sister

Akiba Drumer

A Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as he experiences in the concentration camp

Madame Schachter

A jewish woman from Sighet who is deported in the same camp of Eliezer. Madame Schachter is taken for a mad woman when, every night, she screamed (sees furnaces in distance). She proves to be a prophetess, however, as trains arrive at crematoria Auschwitz.

Juliek

A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz. Juliek reappears late in the memoir, when Eliezer hears him play violin after death march to Gleiwitz.

Literary Terms

Foreshaddowing- Madam Schachter burns Atchuwitz

Mood- sorrow, depressed