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| The narrator of night & the stand in for the memoir's. |
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| Him & Eliezer desperately try to remain together throughout their concentration camp ordeal. |
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| Eliezer's teacher of Jewish mysticism. |
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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 women from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car. Is taken for a mad women. |
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| A young musician, Eliexer dhears him playing the violin after the death march to Gleiwitz. |
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| 2 brothers with whom Elizer becomes friendly in Buna. |
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| the cruel doctor who presided over the selection of arrivals, known as "Angel of Death". |
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| Eliezer's kapo at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna. |
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| Notices Eliezer's gold teeth & gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out with a rusty spoon. |
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| Son abandons him in one of many instances in Night of a son behaving crueing toward his father. |
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| Is trampled to death during the run to Gleiwitz. |
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| Saves Eliezer's life from an unidentied assailant |
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| Lies to him & tells him that his family is still alive & healthy. |
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| Eliezer's youngest sister. |
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| Young German soldier fighting in the trenches |
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| Pauls classmates & clostes friends |
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| Is a hardheaded, practival young man & ask questions anout the postwar. |
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| A wiry young man with a voracious appetite. |
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| A pompus, ignorant, authoritarian schoolmaster in Paul's high school years. Pressures people to fulfil their "Patriotic duty." |
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| Noncommissioned fraining officer |
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| Suffered a light wound, he contracts ganfrene, his leg has to be amputated. His death shows the meaningless of death in the war |
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| the first to die in the was he did not want to enlist, but he caved under pressure of Kantorek. |
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| A young man with a wife and child at home; he is always home sick from his family & his friends. |
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| A french soldier who pauls kills in no mans land. |
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| He was the first in Paul's class to lose his virginty |
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| Was a peat-digger. He plans to serve a full term in the army after the war ends. |
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| desperately wants to have sex with his visting wife but is confinged to bed because of a minor fever. |
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| Becomes a fraining officer & enjoys tormenting Kantorek when Kantorek is conscripted as a soldier. |
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