Auschwitz Memorial Responds After Journalists Defend Ocasio-Cortez’s Concentration Camps Comments

A guard tower is seen at the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau near Oswiecim, on Jan. 26, 2015. Laszlo Balogh/File Photo via Reuters

The Auschwitz Memorial asked several journalists who defended Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) over her controversial comparison of U.S. border facilities to concentration camps in Nazi Germany to better educate themselves on the subject; meanwhile, a number of Jewish groups criticized the comparison.

Update: The Auschwitz Memorial issued the following statement in response to this story.