Night Elie Wiesel characters

Idek

Kapo who beats Elie and his father

Akiba drumer

Jewish prisoner and singer who loses faith in God and chooses selection

Moshe the beadle

Tries to warn the Jews of sighet of the horrors of the Nazis to not avail

Shlomo Wiesel

Shopkeeper and Elie's father

Elie Wiesel

Narrator of the novel

Dr.Mengele

Decides who will die at the selections at Auschwitz

Madame Schachter

Loses her mind as she envisions fire in the train car

Juliek

Plays Beethoven on his violin to the dead and dying

Hilda

Elie's oldest sister who in the year of 1943 their mother was trying to make marriage arrangements

Stein

Elie's relative from Antwerp whom he and his father encounter at Auschwitz

Franek

Cruel foreman from Buna who takes Elie's gold crown

Tzipora

Elie's youngest sister who dies at Birkenau

Mier Katz

Chlomo's friend from Buna

Rabbi Eliahou

Devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him in the march to Gleiwitz

Sighet

Elie's hometown

Auschwitz-Birkenau

extermination camp and the first camp Elie arrives at. Where his mother and sisters are separated

Buna

the second camp Elie arrives at: labor camp

Buchenwald

the third concentration camp Elie arrives at. Liberated by American soldiers and freeing Elie after his father dies

What are three ways people were dehumanized during the Holocaust?

Transported on cattle train cars and denied hygiene- mass extermination- witnessing death- psychological tortur