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| The narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author |
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| Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism;returns to tell the town what the Nazis are doing to the Jews. The community takes Moshe for a lunatic. |
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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; Sees fires in distance |
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| A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz;Eliezer hears him playing the violin after the death march to Gleiwitz. |
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| Two brothers;They make a plan to move to Palestine after the war. |
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| Mengele was the cruel doctor who presided over the selection of arrivals at Auschwitz/Birkenau. Known as the “Angel of Death,” Mengele’s words sentenced countless prisoners to death in the gas chambers. He also directed horrific experiments on human subjects at the camp. |
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| Eliezer’s Kapo at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna. |
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| Eliezer’s foreman at Buna. He 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 |
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| One of Eliezer’s fellow prisoners. Zalman is trampled to death during 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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| A young German soldier fighting in the trenches during World War I. Paul is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. He is, at heart, a kind, compas-sionate, and sensitive young man, but the brutal expe-rience of warfare teaches him to detach himself from his feelings. His account of the war is a bitter invective against sentimental, romantic ideals of warfare. |
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| A young German soldier fighting in the trenches during World War I. Paul is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. He is, at heart, a kind, compas-sionate, and sensitive young man, but the brutal expe-rience of warfare teaches him to detach himself from his feelings. His account of the war is a bitter invective against sentimental, romantic ideals of warfare. |
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| AQOTWF Stanislaus Katczinsky |
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| A soldier belonging to Paul’s company and Paul’s best friend in the army. He is a resourceful, inventive man and always finds food, clothing, and blankets whenever he and his friends need them |
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| One of Paul’s classmates who serves with Paul in the Second Company. An intelligent, speculative young man, Kropp is one of Paul’s closest friends during the war. His interest in analyzing the causes of the war leads to many of the most critical antiwar sentiments in the novel |
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| One of Paul’s classmates. Müller is a hardheaded, practical young man, and he plies his friends in the Second Company with questions about their postwar plans. |
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| One of Paul’s friends in the Second Company. Tjaden is 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 |
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| He did not want to enlist, but he caved under the pressure of the schoolmaster, Kantorek |
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| Detering - One of Paul’s close friends in the Second Company. Detering is a young man with a wife and a farm at home; he is constantly homesick for his farm and family. |
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| A French soldier whom Paul kills in No Man’s Land |
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| One of Paul’s classmates and close friends during the war. He serves with Paul in the Second Company. He was the first in Paul’s class to lose his virginity. |
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| One of Paul’s friends in the Second Company. A gigantic, burly man, Westhus was a peat-digger before the war. He plans to serve a full term in the army after the war ends, since he finds peat-digging so |
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| A soldier in a neighboring unit. He is a bed wetter like Tjaden. |
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| A patient in the Catholic hospital where Paul and Kropp recuperate from their wounds. He desperately wants to have sex with his visiting wife but is confined to bed because of a minor fever. |
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| One of Paul’s classmates. He becomes a training officer and enjoys tormenting Kantorek when Kantorek is conscripted as a soldier. |
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