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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAuschwitz survivor Eva Kor called for forgiveness even for Nazi crimes Eva Kor survived the Holocaust and went on to call for forgiveness of Nazi perpetrators, giving tours of the death camp at Ausch…

What about the private detention centers for undocumented immigrants, which Ms. Ocasio-Cortez described last month as concentration camps? After the comparison, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a news release denouncing comparisons to the Ho…

At home, my parents were loving but firm; societal expectations prevailed. I was potty trained in infancy, taught always to be polite Please and Thank you, Have a nice day. I chewed with my mouth closed. My family left the Soviet Union in May of 1989, after …

Hundreds of scholars have signed a letter calling for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. to retract its June 24 statement that rejected comparisons between the conditions of migrant detention facilities on the US-Mexico border to the concent…

Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked a fierce debate when she compared detention centers for migrant children to concentration camps, and a new INSIDER poll found that just 25% of Americans agree with her comparison. Her statement was more popular a…

A 93-year-old Holocaust survivor said New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's past comments on concentration camps should be grounds to remove her from Congress. Ed Mosberg survived the Plaszów and Mauthausen concentration camps and is the only one of his f…

On June 17, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, posted an Instagram live video discussing the detention camps along the southern US border as concentration camps in which she used the phrase Never Again. This drew sharp criticism th…

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Testimony from trials and truth commissions has revealed that many atrocity perpetrators think of what theyre doing as they would think of any other day job. While the leaders who order atrocities may be acting out of strongly held ideological beliefs or poli…