Answer:
The townspeople did not want to believe Moishe because they thought that he was looking for them to sympathize and pity him. They also believed that he has gone mad.
Moishe, on the other hand, wanted them to believe him because he took it upon himself to warn them of the upcoming horrors that will befall the Jews of Sighet.
Explanation:
The autobiographical memoir of Elie Wiesel "Night" tells the experiences of the author and his father, along with other Jews during the Holocaust. These events in the book became the main witness and written proof for the atrocities faced by the people.
Moishe the Beadle was a "foreign Jew" who had come to Sighet and was working as a caretaker of the synagogue. After his deportation and lucky escape from being executed, he returned to Sighet and told the Jews there about the horrors faced by the Jews in other parts of the world. He began telling them to be ready and escape for that will also happen to them. But the people in Sighet did not believe him, telling him that Sighet is a far place and the Nazi Germans won't reach there. Instead, they think that he "has gone mad" and was doing all these to gain "pity" from them.
He cared if they believed him or not for he believes that he was saved from death to help warn the other Jews. He told Elie "I wanted to come back, and to warn you".
