Option 1, how ignorance led to oppression

The Jews of Sighet refused to beleive Moshe the Beadle when he survived the deportation of the foreign Jews. They assumed that Moshe the Beadle was crazy and nothing bad like the things he described could ever happen to them. They doubted that Hitler was even attempting to exterminate the Jews at all. Even when they hear about the Germans attacking Jewish shops and synagogues in Budapest, they convince themselves that the Germans will stay there. The German army comes to Sighet a few days later. The Germans are in their own town, but the Jews continue to think optimistically and that nothing bad could happen to them. Eventually, the Germans shut down synagogues and arrested the leaders of the Jewish community. They are forced to live in a ghetto, but still they still think they will be rescued by the Red Army before the Germans have a chance to deport them. The Jews are then loaded onto trains and sent to concentration camps. The ignorance of the Jews of Sighet absolutely led to their deaths at the hands of the Germans. They knew what was going to happen, but they refused to believe it. They had months to escape before the Germans arrived, but they continued to stay.