Across many different places in Europe, this was perhaps one of the safest places actually for this family to be; Hungary

Across the world, anti-Semitic sentiment protruded itself onto all reams of society, in Africa, in Asia, but particularly so in Europe, were nearly all the major powers disregarding the Allies participated in someway in this tragedy. One of the word places in Europe would be Eastern Europe, particularly in the Soviet Union, where to appease Ribbentrop, Stalin had thousands of Jews purged and shot within his eastern territories, even many upper members of the party, much of them Jews in fact, where purged.

Of course, they would be targeted later by it sides again over the course of the eastern front. The best place thus to find yourself then was actually in the Balkan, in places such as Hungary, Bulgaria, and Greece, where these governments held on to their autonomy and weren’t entirely under Nazi control, and thus only meekly on occasion capitulated to their “tributes” demanded by Hitler, meanwhile many were able to evade capture, escape, or for many, would be glad to find themselves the first to be liberated by approaching Soviet forces, who raced to cut through the region.

The family in Night thus find themselves in what is in fact one of the best countries they could’ve been in to avoid capture.