Concentration camp

Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial shut down by German authorities

The rally was slated for April 12, marking the 81st anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation by US troops. But the city of Weimar said on Monday it would ban the event on the memorial grounds.

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar
A portrait of Friedrich Torberg, Jan. 1, 1970.

A lost novel from 1943 that predicted the Holocaust has been recovered

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators wear keffiyeh at a protest to condemn the interception of the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Rome, Italy, October 1, 2025.

Anti-Zionist group plans keffiyeh protest amid Buchenwald camp's ban on pro-Palestinian symbols

A recreated train car stands as a memorial at the former loading ramp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 15, 2015.

Deutsche Bahn’s new rail plan cannot be allowed to erase a vital Holocaust memory site - opinion


'Internment camps? Yes. Concentration camps? No,' says Ted Koppel

Ted Koppel refutes comparisons between USA and Nazi Germany in a passionate Op-ed.

Ted Koppel speaks at the Edward R. Murrow Forum in 2006

Armed man killed outside detention center cites ‘concentration camp’ in manifesto

He wrote a three-page manifesto against “visible fascism,” posted on the website of the KIRO television station, before heading out to the center.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing

AOC says U.S. running 'concentration camps' on border

Experts say that so far, what the US is doing on its southern border with the migrants "is similar to some prior [concentration camp] systems."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) looks on during a march organised by the Women's March Alliance in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., January 19, 2019

Holocaust survivor: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deserves award for stupidity

"She doesn’t want to learn — she’s looking for excuses," he said. "I would like to nominate her for the Nobel Prize in stupidity.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) removes her glasses before a hearing of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, May 15, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declines Auschwitz visit with Holocaust survivor

Edward Mosberg told the congresswoman, "now is an opportunity that won’t repeat itself"

 Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg and From the Depths founder Jonny Daniels stand outside Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

How Jews have reacted to AOC’s concentration camp comments

The Congresswoman has been getting plenty of criticism since referring to migrant detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border as “concentration camps."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing

Omar: Don't know why AOC's concentration camps comment is controversial

Last week, Ocasio-Cortez equated the migrant camps set up on the US-Mexico border with concentration camps on a live Instagram video.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) participates in a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, US, April 10, 2019

Letters to the Editor June 24, 2019: Economic boon or more terrorism?

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez invited by Polish MP to see concentration camps

In the open letter, Dominik told Ocasio-Cortez that he was writing to her "out of distress in having learned of your recent statements regarding concentration camps."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at the Netroots Nation annual conference for political progressives in New Orleans

Concentration camps?

US media has now joined the debate about concentration camps.

Youth attend the annual March of the Living at the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz on May 2, 2019