The Germans made the jews belive that they can be trusted and the jews was illusion was to think that the germans was helping them because the first issue that is dealt with almost immediately is of deportation,and of false hope.Once the trian go to the concetration camps in poland,they were all taken to the forest, where the jews made to dig there own graves.In 1944, germans invaded hungary and the german army itself entered sighet. The book touched on the aftermath when the people looked for food and sex, rather than the "perfect" scenario of looking out for your family,which isn't very realistic.