During the Holocaust, many of the Jews did not know where they were being led by the Germans or Frenchman until they arrived at the concentration camps. This was done on purpose in order to keep everyone in line as well as not to anger Germans. So it remained a secret held by one person. As explained in Night, the author takes on a voice of understanding when he talks about this man. Knowing that if he were in this situation he would do the same thing, stating it as pure fact with no jealously in his tone of his writing. “This was a secret. A secret from all except one: the President of the Jewish Council. But he would not say; he could not say. The Gestapo has threatened to shoot him if he talked,” (Wiesel 11). Threats were not uncommon during
