The answer to your question can be found in chapter nine of The Devil’s Arithmetic . No, Hannah does not believe the Nazi soldiers when they show up at the Jewish synagogue and announce that the people attending the wedding are going to be relocated due to a new, benign government policy. Specifically, the Nazis say, “anyone who wants to work will be treated humanely.” They are promised good care and happiness among their own Jewish people. Hannah, finally aware of what time period she has entered, announces to everyone the general horrors of the Holocaust: the Nazis will place Jewish people in concentration camps and kill them in gas chambers and ovens. No one believes Hannah. In fact, Gitl is forced to defend Hannah by saying that she has just recovered from a sickness that has affected her mind. Gitl says that the illness caused “too much imagination and...