death marches, when tens of thousands of Jews at one time were paraded

to the extermination camps in Germany, Poland and Austria. Some of the

more notable death marches included the mass march from the Warsaw

Ghetto to the extermination camp at Auschwitz and the numerous marches

that occurred following ghettoization related in Elie Wiesel's Night.

Though much of the modern world may find it difficult, if not

impossible, to accept that notion that humankind can act with such

disdain for human life, the objectification of the Jews as a component

of the Nazi regime defined the acceptability of the death marches and

the systematic extermination of innumerable populations of Jews.

One of the keys to the relative successes of Hitler's

extermination plans was that few people escaped the horrors at the end

of the death march, and so there were only a handful of people who were

able to actually substantiate claims of mass extermination that took

place at camps like Auschwitz, and even fewer who could fan the flames

of resistance by retelling the horrific stories of what occurred to

those who followed. Some theorists argue that if the Jews had not been

experience dictated changes in many of the survivors' lives.

any aid they provided, clearly avoiding any support to the Jewish

the initial transport process, Weisel wrote:

changes for the Jewish communities, especially in countries like Poland,

viable depictions of their experience has been relatively limited, and

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