Differences Between Aunt Gitl And Elie Wiesel

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Aunt Gitl - A fiery, opinionated women with whom Hannah lives. She is very independent. She survives until the very end, at the liberation of the camp she weighed 73 lbs.

Uncle Shmuel - He is the family jokester a very kind, loyal man. He loves Hannah a lot and loves Fayge to almost to a fault. He is killed after trying to escape the death camp.

Fayge - This is Hannah’s aunt by marriage. She is very beautiful and upbeat person who loves Shmuel very much. She is killed by firing squad at death camp after some of Hannah’s group try to escape. She was not part of the group to be executed however, she could not bear living without Shmuel

Aunt Eva/Rikva - In the past she is Rikva, a 10 year-old chatterbox who comes up with an explanation

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