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| Who is the author of Night? |
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| the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable. Despite many tests of his humanity, however, Eliezer maintains his devotion to his father. |
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| Eliezer’s father is named only once, at the end of Night. Chlomo 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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| A poor Jew that lives in Sighet. |
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| Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as a result of his experiences in the concentration camp. |
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| The women who kept screaming she saw fire. |
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| A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz. Juliek reappears late in the memoir, when Eliezer hears him playing the violin after the death march in Gleiwitz. |
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| Two brothers with whom Eliezer becomes friendly in Buna. Tibi and Yosi are Zionists. |
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| Known as the “Angel of Death,” |
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| Eliezer’s Kapo,many Kapos were as cruel to the prisoners as the Germans. During moments of insane rage,he beats Eliezer. |
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| Eliezer’s foreman at Buna.He notices Eliezer's gold tooth. |
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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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| One of Eliezer’s fellow prisoners. he is trampled to death on the run to Gleiwitz. |
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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 him and tells him that his family is still alive and healthy. |
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| Eliezer's youngest sister |
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| Who is the author of All Quiet On The Western Front? |
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| a protagonist and narrator of the novel.A young German soldier fighting in the trenches during World War 1 |
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| Belongs to Paul's company and his best friend in the army.forty years old.He always finds food and clothing and blankets whenever he and his friends need them. |
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| Serves with Paul in the Second Company.He is one of Pauls closest friends in the war.His interst in analyzing the causes of the war leads to many of the most critical antiwat sentiments in the novel. |
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| One of Paul's classmates.Hardheaded,practical young man,and he plies his friends in the Second Company about their postwar plans. |
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| Paul's friend in the Second Company.A wiry young man with a voracious appetite.He bears a deep grudge against Corporal Himmelstoss. |
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| A pompous,Ignorant,authoritarian schoolmaster in Paul's high school during the years before the war.he places tense pressure on paul and his friends. |
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| A noncommissioned training officer.Before the war he was a postman. He is petty,power-hungry little man who tormens paul and his friendsduring theit training. |
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| Paul's classmate to die in the war.he contracts gangrene and his leg has to be amputated. |
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| to suggest or hint slyly. |
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