2.  Eliezer Wiesel – author, narrator. 12 years old in the beginning of the story and 15 when he enters the concentration camps  Cholmo – Elie’s father who is respected by the Jewish community  Moshe the Beadle – Elie’s teacher of Jewish mysticism  Dr. Josef Mengele (Angel of Death) - cruel doctor who experiments on prisoners; decides who will live and who will die

3.  Madame Schachter – Jewish womand deported with Elie’s family. Has visions of fire and is beaten for screaming on train  Juliek – musician who is crushed to death  Franek – Elie’s cruel foreman at Buna  Rabbi Eliahou - devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him on the march to Gleiwitz  Zalman – trampled to death on march to Gleiwitz

4.  Begins in Sighet, Hungry 1941  Elie is very religious and is taught Jewish mysticism by Moshe the Beadle  Moshe is deported by Nazis  he survives and returns to Sighet to warn the other Jews about what he saw  no one believes him  German soldiers come to Sighet and start to slowly oppress the Jews: › Arrest Jewish leaders › Take their valuables › Wear yellow stars › Moved into ghettos › Eventually transported from ghettos

5.  Elie is sent to Birkenau and separated from mom and sisters  Sent to showers and assigned a barrack  Sent to Auschwitz  Then moved to Buna  Elie meets Juliek  Elie goes to the dentist to have his gold crown removed, but pretends to be sick  Franek beats Chlomo until Eli gives him the gold crown

6.  Allies start bombing Buna  A young boy is hung for stealing food, Elie must watch him slowly suffocate  Elie’s father doesn’t pass The Selection › Gives Elie his knife and spoon as his inhertiance › Chlomo passes the second Selection  Red Army approaches Buna so it is evacuated

7.  The “death march” begins towards Gleiwitz  Prisoners are forced to run for long periods of time in the snow and cold › Shot if they stop or slow down  Sent on a train to Buchenwald, the majority of the prisoners die on the train  Chlomo becomes sick from dysentery

8.  The other prisoners steal Chlomo’s food and beat him  Elie is told to let his father go  Chlomo dies and Elie is sent to the children’s block  Camp is evacuated  American army liberates Elie and the remaining prisoners

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