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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. he is the narrator of the book night |
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| eliezer's father; he is one of the main characters in the book, but his name is only mentioned once |
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| Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism, Moshe is a poor Jew who lives in Sighet. |
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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 that was deported in the same cattle cart as eliezer; she kept screaming "fire" and people beat her for it |
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| eliezer's kapo at the electrical equipment warehouse in buna ; he beats eliezer |
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| Eliezer's foreman in buna; he sees eliezers gold tooth and gets a dentist to pull it with a rusty spoon |
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| a jewish prisoner whose son treats him horribly. eliezer prayes that he will never treat his father like that |
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| one of the prisons that was trampled on 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; eliezer lies to stein and tells him that his family is fine, to boost stein's sprit |
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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 |
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| soldier belonging to Paul’s company and Paul’s best friend in the army. Kat, as he is known, is forty years old at the beginning of the novel and has a family at home. he can always find food and clothing when needed |
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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 |
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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. he hates himmelstoss |
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| A pompous, ignorant, authoritarian schoolmaster in Paul’s high school during the years before the war. he put pressure on his classmates to enlist in the army |
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Before the war, Himmelstoss was a postman. He is a petty, power-hungry little man who torments Paul and his friends during their training. After he experiences the horrors of trench warfare, however, he tries to make amends with them.
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| he was the first to die; he didn't want to enlist in the war, but kantorek pressured him to |
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| 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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| One of Paul’s classmates and close friends during the war. Leer serves with Paul in the Second Company. he was girl crazy |
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| typical teenager and she didn't pay attention to what her family and teacher told her about the holocaust, therefore she was not prepared for it. she found out all about it |
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| rivka is really ava, she changed her name after she survived the holocaust; hannah saved rivka's life by pretending to be her |
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