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- Elie’s mentor and a man who’s described as hesitant and dreamy. He is usually reserved but develops a friendship with Elie in their village. He escapes from the Gestapo in Poland and returns to tell the villagers what happened to him. Due in part to Moishe’s PTSD, no one in the community takes him seriously.
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Eliezer. The narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, Elie Wiesel. Night traces Eliezer’s psychological journey, as 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.
- Elie Wiesel
- 1956
Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.
- Elie Wiesel
- 1960: Night. New York: Hill & Wang; London: MacGibbon & Kee, 116 pages.
Mrs. Wiesel Elie's mother remains silent and casts questioning looks at her family as she cooks food for the departure from their Sighet home. As the family marches from the large ghetto, her face is expressionless. In Elie's last view of her, she is stroking Tzipora's hair in a reassuring gesture.
Night Summary. Next. Chapter 1. At the start of the memoir, it's 1941 and Eliezer is a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in the Hungarian town of Sighet. He's deeply religious and spends much of his time studying the Torah (the Bible) and the Talmud and praying. His parents and sisters run a shop in the town, and his father is highly respected in the ...
Mrs. Wiesel. Eliezer’s mother. A quiet woman who Elie sees for the final time stroking his sister’s hair. Shlomo. Eliezer’s father and the only other character besides Elie who is present throughout the novel. He’s a kind, respected member of the Jewish community and suffers as Elie does through their time in the camp. Moishe the Beadle.
