After reading the first chapter a question came into my mind, would have more Jews survived and escaped if they had reacted a different way or defended themselves earlier and didn't try to ignore what was happening. The biggest surprise from reading the first chapter is The Jews of Sighet refused to believe what was actually happening at the death camps even after Moshe the Beadle told them about his experience there, I agree with the previous posts about admiring them for having an optimistic view on everything during such a hard time but at the same time I feel like in doing so they ignored the bigger problem and like Coca said previously its almost as if they were hiding from the truth, from reality. They refused to believe that the Nazi could possibly be this evil. It was also very intense and difficult to read as he described how terribly the Jews were treated during deportation.
I totally agree with this point. I found it surprising as well that many Jews did not want to believe that the Nazis were doing terrible things. I think a main reason why they did this is that, they were not ready to accept this reality. By accepting this reality, I think many of them would begin to loose all hope. Believing that it could get better and nothing worse was going to happen, was a way for the Jews to cope and give them hope that everything was going to be okay.
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