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Night

 

            
            
            
             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.
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             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.
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             Elie- formally introduced here as the narrator.
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             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.
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             Elie's Grandfather- came to celebrate the new year with this family and attend the services of the famous rabbi of Borshe.
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             German Officers- one lived in the house opposite Elie's with the Kahn family, he bought Madame Kahn a box of chocolates three days after moving in.
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             Father- buried the family's savings because according to German Officers a jew was no longer able to keep in his house gold, jewels or any objects of value; everything had to be handed over on pain of death.
             All Jews- had to wear a yellow star.
             Father- had highly placed connections in the Hungarian Police.
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             All jews- were no longer allowed to go to restaurants or cafes, to travel on the railway, to attend synagogue, to go out in the street after six o'clock.
             Sighet- spilt into two ghettos, A large one in the center of the town (occupied the 4 main streets)and a smaller one(extended over small side streets).


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