These are the first words you see when you enter the Auschwitz exhibition

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6. Primo Levi meant genocide-- as in the holocaust. And here, of Native Americans, in Bosnia, Cambodia,

and Rwanda. Not by any means an exhaustive list. It is intentional mass killing.

I still believe AOC meant to reference the holocaust, to many Jews an offensive comparison.

Nonetheless, I would like to see her propose active interventions, document conditions in detention
centers, lobby for greater media coverage and follow up, insist on discovering the fate of the “lost” children, present authoritative information about the consequences on emotional health and child development of family separation...etc. etc.

Primo Levi committed suicide. His memoir of his experience in Auschwitz, if This is a Man, is a harrowing account. Although he stressed perseverance and survival in his writings, Ellie Wiesel, also an Auschwitz survivor, said that Levi died “in Auschwitz, 40 years later.”

Although our government is not carrying out a genocidal plan against Central American asylum seekers and refugees, many will be traumatized for life; some deported back to violence, extortion,
grueling poverty could die. There has been at least one known murder of a deportee in Mexico due to a mistaken gang hit and of a two transgender women, one while in custody and the other shortly after release.