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Eliezer
A young Jewish boy from Sighet, Transylvania.
The protagonist and narrator of the book.
3rd oldest and only son of the 4 Wiesel children
The protagonist and narrator of the book.
3rd oldest and only son of the 4 Wiesel children
Schlomo (Eliezer's father)
Elie's companion throughout the camps.
Dies of dysentery at Buchenwald.
Dies of dysentery at Buchenwald.
Moishe the Beadle
A childhood friend of Elie's who loses his faith after seeing Germans exterminate a truckload of Jewish people.
Ignored by the townspeople of Sighet, who think he is insane.
Ignored by the townspeople of Sighet, who think he is insane.
Hilda
Eliezer's oldest sister.
The oldest of the 4 Wiesel children.
The oldest of the 4 Wiesel children.
Bea
Eliezer's older sister.
The second oldest of the 4 Wiesel children.
The second oldest of the 4 Wiesel children.
Tzipora
Eliezer's youngest sister.
Separated from Eliezer with their mother at Birkenau.
The youngest of the 4 Wiesel children.
Separated from Eliezer with their mother at Birkenau.
The youngest of the 4 Wiesel children.
Eliezer's mother
Separated from Eliezer with his sister Tzipora at Birkenau.
Madame Schacter
A woman on the cattle car who was beaten for continually screaming "Fire!"
Dr. Josef Mengele
An infamous Nazi officer who oversaw the selections at the camp.
Akiba Drumer
A Jewish prisoner at the camps who gradually loses his faith in God.
Elie and his fellow prisoners forget to recite Kaddish for him.
Elie and his fellow prisoners forget to recite Kaddish for him.
Juliek
A Polish musician that Elie meets at Buna who plays the violin.
Idek
Elie's Kapo (a prisoner assigned to police other prisoners) at the electrical warehouse in Buna.
He beats Elie several times when he gets angry.
He beats Elie several times when he gets angry.
Franek
Elie's foreman in Buna. Pleasant until he demands Elie's gold filling in his tooth.
Rabbi Eliahu
A prisoner whose son abandons him on the death march because he was lagging behind.
Zalman
A fellow prisoner who gets sick on the death march. He gets trampled to death.
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