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= **__Night Characters you need to know:__** = ==**Eliezer Wiesel** ==
 * **religious family**
 * **optimistic during the camp and before they are taken**
 * **stays strong during the concentration camps**
 * **doesn't let the guy take his tooth**
 * **keeps the faith**
 * **after beaten by the guard he got up**
 * **after his father was beaten he had to just watch and take it**
 * family is important and sticks with his father

==**Elie's Father** ==
 * **well respected in the community**
 * **tries to help out his son while in the camps**
 * **became weak during the camps**
 * **separated with the different sleeping areas**
 * **had a fever and his son helped him get through it**
 * **got beaten a lot the kapo and other prisoners**

==**Elie's mother** ==
 * **held the family together before they got separated**
 * **never sees his mom or sister again**

==**sister (Tzipora)** ==
 * **doesn't know what happened to her**

==**Kapo** ==
 * **leader of each unit/barracks**
 * **select the people to work different jobs**
 * **Idek...buna electrical warehouse**
 * **had a bad temper**
 * **beat the father**
 * **Elie saw him raping a girl...that is why he got beat.**

==**French female prisoner** ==
 * **met her in the camps**
 * **forced labor deportee**
 * **after Elie was beat she took care of him**
 * **met later in Paris...and had dinner together**
 * **writer**
 * **pretended that she didn't know German**
 * **fake papers so they would treat her better**

==**Franek (foreman)** ==
 * **supervisor at the camp**
 * **bad temper...**
 * **is nice when...????**
 * **discovers that Elie has a gold crown**
 * **let Elie sit by his father**
 * **student from Warsaw**

==**Rabbi Eliahou** ==
 * **rabbi of a small community**
 * **loved by everyone including the Germans**
 * **actually called Rabbi by the others...**
 * **comforted his people...**
 * **running he lost his son...but the son was running away from him because he was looking out for himself rather than his father.**
 * **faith???**

==**Juliek (Polish friend)** == Akiba Drumer
 * **Polish violin player**
 * **died...playing Beethoven...he was German and they couldn't play him**
 * **with his music he was comforting the others**
 * **Gleiwitz**
 * **helpful?**
 * Pipel**
 * **a young beautiful boy...**
 * **could have authority**
 * **cruel**
 * **had a tragic death...circumstances around this?**
 * **how were they used by the guards????**
 * 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 **
 * **2nd camp that they went to**
 * **safe as long as you not in the building unit**
 * **warned that the Russians were coming**
 * **majority of his time**
 * **action was in this part!!!**
 * **French girl**
 * **was bombed**
 * **was in the hospital for the foot had the choice to stay but they left** irony **those who stayed were saved**
 * 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.
 * Rabbi Eliahou looks for his son here..only to realize that his son has abandoned his father.

Gleiwitz
 * **found his friend Juliek**
 * **4 days no food or drink**
 * **not allowed to stay**
 * **lost his father and found him**
 * **snowing**

Buchenwald
 * **stayed until April**
 * **father died here**
 * **camp was to be liberated**
 * **stopped giving them food**
 * **US troops ended up coming and saving who was left**

__**Themes you need to know:**__ >> religion (keeping and losing your faith)Keeping death sanity and insanity
 * family**
 * **stay together in the camp**
 * **make friends with other families**
 * **even though they tried to stay together they are still split up**
 * **devastating to families who have not experienced things like this**
 * **keeping faith**
 * **more faith at the beginning**
 * as things got worse started to lose
 * more punishment the more it shows He loves us...
 * losing faith
 * stopped praying after a while
 * didn't fast for the holiday
 * kept the faith= stayed a live the ones who lost faith died
 * knew they were being punished
 * when his father died...sick
 * when the child died...suffered
 * **start to lose faith because of all the death**
 * **they didn't expect it**
 * **the reality check...**
 * **numb to it**
 * **in order to keep sanity one had to keep faith and family (Madame Sch.)**
 * **music**
 * **when people died they would...pray**
 * **celebrating the holidays...fasting**
 * **family**
 * **food**
 * **madame Sch...on the train**
 * **all around them cannot handle the situations**
 * **didn't want to believe what was happening...**
 * **what was happening**
 * **went along with everything and didn't fight**
 * **over came their humanity**
 * **throw the bread and watch people kill over it...entertainment!**