Night

Night Night by Elie Wiesel Character List: Page 1: Moshe the Beadle- man off all work at a Hasidic Synagogue; very poor, lived humbly, dreamy eyes, awkward as a clown, spoke little, used to sing or rather to chant Page 2: Elie’s father- cultured, unsentimental; concerned about other’s rather than his family, held to the greatest esteem in the community Hilda- first child born; Elie’s sister Béa- second born; Eli’s sister Eliezer (Elie)- introduced formally on page 3; narrator, third born and only son to the family Tzipora- forth born; sister of Elie Page 3: Elie- formally introduced here as the narrator Page 4: Moshe the Beadle- returns after himself and other jews from the town were taken away by the Hungarian Police and then crossed into Polish Territory Malka- a girl that took three days to die, after taken the Hungarian Police Hungarian Police- took the jews by train to a place where they dug there own graves and stood in front of them to be shot and left for dead Tobias- the town’s tailor, begged to be killed by the police before his sons Page 5: Elie’s Grandfather- came to celebrate the new year with this family and attend the services of the famous rabbi of Borshe Page 7: German Officers- one lived in the house opposite night, elie, elie’s, father, family, jews, police, idek, street, over, out, go, deported, hungarian, girl, came, because, after, two, town, took, servant, polish, one, longer, lived, himself, german, die, block, about, yossi, way, told, time