Eliezer

The narrator of the book, whose name is Eliezer had a troublesome destiny. When he was 14 years old, he was taken to the concentration camps in Czechoslovakia and Germany. Since childhood he lived in Transylvania, he was interested in the religious faith which increased while he was in concentration camps. Also, in the story, he is separated from his mother and sister, but he continues to be close to his father during almost the entirety of his stay in concentration camps. He is very devoted to his father, and the two share rations and look out for each other. Eliezer becomes concerned primarily with feeding himself and with escaping Nazi brutality, and this instinct of self-preservation often outweighs concern for his father, who he expects to take care of himself.