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Jun 24, 2019, 11:02 AM
AOC & the De-Judaization of the Holocaust
A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, on the day of the camp’s liberation by the Red Army, 27th January 1945. Photo taken by Red Army photographer Captain Alexander Vorontsov during the making of a film about the liberation of the camp. The children were dressed in adult uniforms by the Russians. The children are (left to right): Tomy Schwarz (later Shacham), Miriam Ziegler, Paula Lebovics (front), Ruth Webber, Berta Weinhaber (later Bracha Katz), Erika Winter (later Dohan), Marta Weiss (later Wise), Eva Weiss (later Slonim), Gabor Hirsch (just visible behind Eva Weiss), Gabriel Neumann, Robert Schlesinger (later Shmuel Schelach), Eva Mozes Kor, and Miriam Mozes Zeiger. (Photo by Alexander Vorontsov/Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)
Freshman Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D- NY) has generated controversy after referring to migrant detention camps along the U.S. southern border as “concentration camps” while employing the Holocaust phrase "Never Again".  Although many media figures have attempted to hold...
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Jake Fradkin is a rising senior at the Hun School in Princeton, New Jersey (Class of 2020). Growing up in a secular Jewish household, Jake has long felt connected to his Jewish heritage and identity. He enjoys tennis and writing in his free time and plans on studying economics and international relations at college.