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Holocaust Survivors Rebuke AOC for Concentration Camps Comparison: ‘Shame on You’

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By Tré Goins-Phillips
Editor

June 25, 2019

Two Holocaust survivors are rebuking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) after she drew a comparison between Nazi concentration camps and the migrant detention facilities along the country’s southern border.

David Tuck and Sami Steigmann made their remarks in a video for Turning Point USA. They come about a week after Ocasio-Cortez accused the U.S. government of “running concentration camps on our southern border” during an Instagram Live video.

Hi @AOC –
You say America runs concentration camps.
I spoke with people who have true authority on this issue: David & Sami. They both survived real Nazi concentration camps.
They have a message for anyone who thinks America runs concentration camps.
AOC – Please listen, for once pic.twitter.com/hGOwa1T2UG

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 22, 2019

“I went through it,” said Steigmann, who endured medical experimentation during his time in Nazi concentration camps. “How can you, looking at my face, tell me that the camps we have in south are concentration camps?”

“What you are doing,” he continued, “you are insulting every victim of the Holocaust. Shame on you.”

US Holocaust Museum Rebukes AOC, Ilhan Omar for ‘Concentration Camps’ Remarks

At the beginning of the video, Tuck said there are “no concentration camps here.” He later said, “Don’t talk to me about concentration camps. For every 10 Jews, nine were killed. I was lucky. I still have the number on my arm.”

Tuck concluded his comments saying the U.S. is “the best country in the world,” adding, “Enjoy life. We have no concentration camps here.”

MSNBC Host Calls Out AOC for Comparing Migrant Detainment Facilities to Concentration Camps

Footage of their comments came just days before the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a statement rebuking Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow Democrats for drawing a comparison between the situation along the U.S.-Mexico border and Nazi concentration camps.

In its statement, the museum said it “unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary.”

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