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 * __Night Characters you need to know:__**

Elie Wiesel

 * main character
 * enters the concentration camp with dad
 * has a gold tooth
 * biggest fear is being separated from dad
 * starts to think more about himself than his father...survival

Elie's Father

 * rabbi
 * doesn't want son to study Kabala
 * wanted to stay with Elie in the camp
 * tried to save food...for fear they might not have food the next day
 * even though they had the option to move thought he was too old to relocate
 * Could speak German but didn't

Elie's mother

 * separated at the very beginning
 * Elie doesn't worry about her while in the camp...too worried about himself and his father

sister (Tzipora)

 * baby of the family
 * separated at the beginning with the mom

Kapo

 * security guards at the camps
 * perfect condition
 * patch up an eye?
 * at certain times they can be nice, but at other times they are cruel
 * was one who was kind to Elie and his father but he was replaced
 * Idek the kapo who beat them
 * Elie walked in on Idek and the polish girl having sex...got beat because of this.

French female prisoner

 * Helped Elie after the kapo beat him
 * words of encouragement to him
 * met up later in the book...train station
 * she could speak German but didn't she didn't want them to suspect her

Franek (foreman)

 * Foreman at Buna
 * notices Elie's gold tooth and gets a dentist to pry it out.

Rabbi Eliahou

 * everyone looked up to
 * he was looking for his son
 * kapo respected him
 * but he was losing faith because he lost his son

Juliek (Polish friend)
Akiba Drumer
 * polish prisoner
 * same barrack as Elie and his father
 * allies together
 * worked in the warehouse with electrical equipment
 * **Violin player**
 * Alphonse**
 * **German Jew who runs the musicians block**
 * **he would organize more soup for the weaker people on the block**

Meir Katz
 * ** deeply religious elder **
 * ** tried to reassure those around him **
 * ** camps were a "test" for the Jews **
 * ** but eventually loses faith **
 * ** farmer who used to bring fresh vegetables to the Wiesels **
 * ** saves Elie from strangulation **

= ** __Settings you need to know:__ ** =
 * Sighet

Birkenau**
 * **guards order the men and the women to separate**
 * **Elie sees his mother and sister for the last time**
 * **they march to Aushwitz from here**

Auschwitz
 * **this is where they become tattooed**
 * **stripped of his name**
 * **What does his tattoo say?**
 * **meets up with a relative named Stein**
 * **after three weeks they are moved to Buna**

Buna
 * camp that got bombed but it didn't go off
 * only one victim he was the one...soup
 * later on...
 * transfered to the musicians block and work on the electrical equipment...
 * This is where Idek, the kapo, beats Eliezer for no apparent reason.
 * French girl helps Elie out.
 * Elie finds Idek with the girl and then gets beaten
 * spend Rosh Hashanah here
 * Knife and spoon
 * father was selected to die, but escapes and is reunited with Elie
 * foot operation here
 * Rabbi Eliahou looks for his son here..only to realize that his son has abandoned his father.


 * Gleiwitz vs. Buchenwald**
 * **G: Camp in Poland near Germany.**
 * **Juliek is playing his violin**
 * on the way there fighting for food
 * At Gleiwitz witness a father son fight for food to Buchenwald
 * **2nd to last camp**
 * **Elie almost died on the way there**
 * **B: last camp in Germany**
 * **close to the liberation**
 * **father dies**
 * **close to liberation...Germans start acting quickly**
 * **Elie is transfered to the children's block**
 * **were separated but then got to the other side**

__**Themes you need to know:**__
 * family**
 * importance of staying together at the camps
 * keep each other living
 * thought of the family gives others hope
 * make each other stronger


 * religion (keeping and losing your faith)**
 * **keeping faith**
 * keep faith in order to have hope of seeing family and getting out of the camp
 * camp kept faith by celebrating the Jewish new year
 * Elie said he didn't believe...but rather doubted it
 * **losing faith**
 * kid abandoned his father...
 * Elie's father wanted to die
 * Juliek the last song...
 * conditions in which everyone is trying to survive
 * all the death that is going on
 * see others losing faith
 * death**
 * constant fear for them esp. Elie and father
 * dawned on them that it could happen at any time
 * strive to stay alive
 * didn't hit them until they were actually there
 * so used to it
 * sanity and insanity**
 * **Sanity**
 * weren't really going insane...malnourished, no identities
 * sep from families had nothing to hold on to
 * family helped
 * religion
 * others in the camp
 * food
 * music
 * knew it was going to end
 * **insanity**
 * madame Sch. insane because she was seeing things
 * don't fear dieing accept what will happen
 * chaos intense...
 * the basic situation