The Jews of Sighet have an amazing, but irrational ability to be diluted and optimistic in even the worst of situations. Page after page, the Jews come face to face with impending tragedy, yet, somehow, they remain positive and seem almost blind to their inevitable doom. From the very start, the Jews were in denial. While Moishe warns of the merciless executions of innocent Jews, those in Sighet merely brush him off and merely went back to their “normal lives” (7). Though in the middle of a massive war, they don’t fret about their fate. They simply “waited for better days that surely were...to come” (8). Even upon learning of Hitler’s tremendous to wipe them out, they simply dismiss him, claiming that “Hitler [would] not be able to harm [them],
