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| The narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, Elie Wiesel. |
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| Eliezer's fatehr. he is respected by the entire Jewish community of Sighet, and by his son as well. He and Eliezer desperately try to remain together throughout their concentration camp ordeal. |
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| Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism, he is a poor Jew who lives in Sighet. He is deported before the rest of the Sighet Jews but escapes and returns to tell the town what the Nazis are doing to the Jews. They think hes crazy. |
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| A Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as a result of his experiences in the concentration camp. |
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| A Jewish woman from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer. Madame Schächter is taken for a madwoman when, every night, she screams that she sees furnaces in the distance. |
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| Eliezer’s Kapo (a prisoner conscripted by the Nazis to police other prisoners) at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna. During moments of insane rage, Idek beats Eliezer. |
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| Eliezer’s father’s friend from Buna. In the cattle car to Buchenwald, Katz saves Eliezer’s life from an unidentified assailant. |
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| Eliezer’s relative from Antwerp, Belgium, whom he and his father encounter in Auschwitz. Trying to bolster his spirit, Eliezer lies to Stein and tells him that his family is still alive and healthy. |
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| Eliezer’s foreman at Buna. Franek notices Eliezer’s gold tooth and gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out with a rusty spoon. |
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| A devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him in one of many instances in Night of a son behaving cruelly toward his father. |
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| evil doctor that uses the Jews for experimentation and does selection in the concentration camp |
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