Delusional

“The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.” - pg. 12, Night

When I read this the first thing I thought about was how difficult and how scary it must have been to be of the Jewish religion, to be constantly scared of rumors, and the thought of hoping so much that those rumors weren't true. It must have been hard to believe that in such a world, this could have been accepted as something even related to acceptable. When the Hungarian Police came for Moishe the Beadle, he went without a fight even though he was scared and was crying, however, when the Jews were walking to the ghetto, Moishe refused to go there, he was shot, and left for dead. I feel like Moishe would have rather have died than to have been forced to live under someone else’s rules and harsh standards, he felt death was a better outcome than what the ghetto was going to do to him. People can only fear so much before they can’t take it anymore.

The ghettos weren't really ruled by any one person in crazy control or having insane power, but instead by people who have been abusing their power for the greater evil. These Jewish people were sent to these ghettos under the idea that they would just have to live there, and that would be it. Some Jewish people became police for the ghettos making their lives better, however, in the end they would die as well, but it would be under less harsh standards. The Jewish people that were living in the ghetto were under the illusion that they would come out the other end alive, and not as skinny as to see their ribs, ill, or even as extremely malnourished as they were, and the Jewish Police in the ghettos took advantage of that. They were given false hope as to the idea that they’d live through this. The Nazis thought that they had more power than they had, as did the Jewish Police of the ghettos at the time, the Jewish people thought they did as well, and for that, the Jews let the Nazis and Jewish Police of the ghetto, do whatever they wanted. At what point does that become acceptable?