Yad Vashem joins Auschwitz Memorial in addressing AOC’s concentration camp comments

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Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, tweeted directly to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday amid the continuing fallout from her comparison of U.S. migrant detention centers to concentration camps.

“.@AOC Concentration camps assured a slave labor supply to help in the Nazi war effort, even as the brutality of life inside the camps helped assure the ultimate goal of ‘extermination through labor,'” the account wrote, adding, “Learn about concentration camps http://ow.ly/LtnX50uHJL2 #Holocaust #History”

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