Night Characters

Elie Wiesel

• Plays Beethoven
• Held in great esteem by Jews of Sighet
• Narrator of novel
• Loses faith and choses selection

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Chlomo Wiesel

• A lazy man
• A man held in high esteem by Jews of Sighet
• A long lost uncle
• Narrator of novel

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Madame Schachter

• Elie's aunt
• Plays Beethoven
• Loses faith in God
• Loses her mind and envisions fires

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Moshe the Beadle

• Decides who will die in selection
• Tries to warn the Jews of Sighet
• Narrator
• Trampled to death at Gleiwitz

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Juliek

• Loses faith and chooses selection
• Trampled to death
• Tries to warn Jews of Sighet
• Plays Beethoven to dead and dying

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Akiba Drumer

• Kapo who beats Elie and father
• Loses faith and chooses selection
• Narrator of novel
• Decides who will die at Auschwitz

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Dr. Josef Mengele

• Decides who will die in selections at Auschwitz
• Removes Elie's tooth
• Kapo who beats Elie and his father
• Is trampled to death

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Idek

• Elie's sister who dies at Auschwitz
• Decides who will die at Auschwitz
• Kapo who beats Elie and Father
• Plays Beethoven for dead and dying

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Tzipora

• Kapo who beats Elie and father
• Loses her mind and envisions fires
• Plays Beethoven for dead and dying
• Elie's sister who dies at Auschwitz

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Zalmon

• Decides who will die in selections
• Trampled to death in run to Gleiwitz
• Narrator of novel
• Kapo who beats Elie and father

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