Lloyds | Adriatico | A regular customer of Renzo's father. |
Mother | Agata | The mother superior. |
Maria | Avoni | A German whore. |
Albert | Blum | Claudette's father. |
Claudette | Blum | A Belgian teenager. One of the protagonists. Aka: Claudia Fiori. |
David | Blum | Claudette's brother. |
Jacques | Blum | Claudette's sister. |
Paula | Blum | Claudette's mother. |
Serafino | Brizzolari | The municipal bureaucrat. |
Cesare | Brondello | One of Tercilla's neighbors. |
Duno | Brossler | Claudette's friend and neighbor. |
Frieda | Brossler | Duno's mother. |
Herrmann | Brossler | Duno's father. |
Liesl | Brossler | Duno's little sister. |
Rivka | Brossler | Duno's grandmother. |
Steffi | Brossler | Duno's little sister. |
Nonna | Casutto | Angelo's grandmother. Deceased. |
Nonno | Casutto | Lidia's father. Angelo's grandfather. |
Bruno | Ceretto | Angelo's classmate. |
Santino | Cicala | The infantry officer. |
Lavinia | Costa-Valsecchi | An Italian countess. |
Catarina | Dolcino | The Leonis' landlady. Aka: Rina. |
Ferdinando | Dolcino | Rina's dead husband. |
Friedrich | Ebert | A harness maker. |
Vittorio | Emmanuele II | The King who unified Italy. |
Vittorio | Emmanuele III | Rinaldo's boss. |
Guiseppe | Farini | Santino's companion. |
Suora | Fossette | The newly-christened nun. Angelo's teacher. Aka: Sister Dimples. |
Umberto | Giavinetti | The brigadier. Albert's acquaintance. |
Don Leto | Girotti | A San Mauro priest. |
Attilio | Goletta | Battista's cousin. |
Battista | Goletta | A fascist farmer. The man who helped Santino. |
Rosa | Goletta | Battista's wife. |
Tullio | Goletta | Attilio's son. |
Paul | Hausser | Hitler's boss. |
Simon | Henley | A signalman. An Ancona expat. |
Adolf | Hitler | Klara's son. Hausser's 2nd armored corps. |
Klara | Hitler | Adolf Hitler's mother. |
Professor | Hoche | The professor at Freiburh. |
Artur | Huppenkothen | A Gestapo police colonel. Thadden's acquaintance. |
Erna | Huppenkothen | Artur's sister. |
PierCarlo | Innocente | Osvaldo's tormentor. |
Beer | Keg | A nun. |
Albert | Kesserling | The field marshal. |
Ernst | Kunkel | Thadden's staff sergeant. |
Jakub | Landau | The organizer of Italian CNL. |
Bianca | Leoni | Renzo's sister. |
Debora | Leoni | Renzo's sister. |
Elena | Leoni | Renzo's sister. |
Emanuele | Leoni | Renzo's father. |
Lidia | Leoni | Renzo's mother. |
Renzo | Leoni | An Italian Jew. One of the protagonists. Aka: Ugo Messner, Stefano Savoca, Don Gino Righetti. |
Susanna | Leoni | Renzo's sister. |
Rachelle | Loeb | Renzo's sister. |
Tranquillo | Loeb | Leoni's brother-in-law. The lawyer. |
Bettina | Lovera | Tercilla's daughter. |
Bettina | Lovera | Tercilla's daughter. |
Pierino | Lovera | Tercilla's son. |
Primo | Lovera | Tercilla's brother. |
Tercilla | Lovera | The peasant woman that Albert met. |
Dr. | Lundstrom | A doctor. |
Bertino | Marrapodi | The official licensee of a state store. |
Suora | Marta | A middle-aged nun. Aka: Sister Marta. |
Rinaldo | Miroglio | The acting commandant at the Colle Aurelio border. |
Benito | Mussolini | An Italian politician. |
Karl | Osvaldo | Tomitz's brother. Missing. |
Suora | Paola | A nun at Angelo's orphanage. Aka: Sister Scary. |
Anneliese | Reinecke | Helmut's wife. |
Helmut | Reinecke | The Captain. Thadden's assistant. |
Don | Repetto | Boetto's assistant. |
Elsa | Rombach | Werner's wife. |
Major | Salvi | Simon's commander. |
Erwin | Schramm | Elsa and Werner's son. |
Klaus | Schramm | Elsa and Werner's son. |
Werner | Schramm | A waffen-ss medical officer (doctor). |
Altira | Soncini | Angelo's little sister. Deceased. |
Angelo | Soncini | The rabbi's son. Aka: Angelo Santoro. |
Iacopo | Soncini | The chief rabbi of St. Andrea. |
Mirella | Soncini | Angelo's mother. The rabbi's wife. Aka: Marisa. |
Rosina | Soncini | Angelo's sister. |
Osvaldo | Tomitz | The Archbishop Tirassa's secretary. |
Adele | Toselli | An elderly housekeeper in San Mauro Rectory. |
Nello | Toselli | Adele's nephew. |
Giacomo | Tura | Lidia's friend. An elderly hebrew scribe. |
Antonia | Usodimare | The pension house owner. |
Ludovico | Usodimare | The pirate-prince. |
Von | Vietinghoff | The Reich's lackluster. A general. |
Erhardt | Von Thadden | The SS-division commander. The schoolmaster. |
Martina | Von Thadden | Erhardt's wife. |
Badoglio | | The field marshal. |
Beppino | | Brizzolari's assistant. |
Boetto | | An Archbishop in Genoa. |
Carmello | | Pierino's friend. |
Dafne | | One of Soncini's maids. |
Davide | | Sussanah's first love. Deceased. |
Domenico | | Tercilla's lover. |
Eisenhower | | The U.S. General. |
Ida | | Klara's daughter. Deceased. |
Irmgard | | Werner Schramm's sister. |
Lospinoso | | The police
commissionaire. |
Mario | | Angelo's classmate. |
Maurizio | | The young jail guard. |
Otello | | Simon's interpreter. |
Riccardo | | The boy at the orphanage. |
Rosina | | Mirelli's daughter. |
Sara | | The Soncini's maid. |
Stefania | | A Jewish girl at the orphanage. |
Teresina | | One of Soncini's maids. |
Tirassa | | The archbishop. |
Tonio | | The young jail guard. |
Winter | | A field marshal. |