A Holocaust commemoration group has invited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tour Auschwitz in the wake of backlash she's facing for calling the Trump administration's border migrant detention centers 'concentration camps.'
From the Depths posted an open letter on its Facebook page Friday, inviting Ocasio-Cortez to go on an educational tour of Nazi German's Holocaust concentration camps this summer, which would be led by organization president and Holocaust survivor, Edward Mosberg, 93.
The 'educational tour' was 'specifically built for legislators' and would include visits to Mauthausen, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek concentration camps, among other historic sites.
A Holocaust commemoration group has invited Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez on an 'educational tour' of Nazi Germany concentration camps after backlash over her use of the term to describe Trump's migrant detention camps earlier in the week
Ocasio-Cortez faced immediate backlash after she called the detention camps 'concentration camps' on Tuesday in a video chat and on Twitter
From the Depths wrote that 'over 100 international parliamentarians from across the political spectrum' have gone on the tour thus far, including more than 20 members of Congress from both the GOP and Democrat parties.
The invite comes just days after Ocasio-Cortez made headlines for a saying and tweeting that the Trump administration's migrant detention facilities were 'concentration camps.'
'This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying. This is not hyperbole. It is the conclusion of expert analysis,' the freshman congresswoman from New York wrote on Twitter Tuesday, linking to an article from Esquire on the subject.
Republicans were quick to pounce on Ocasio-Cortez for her use of the 'concentration camp' term in this context.
'Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history,' tweeted Republican Liz Cheney, the party's third most senior member of the House. '6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.'
'People like @AOC -- who are not lifting a finger to solve the problem -- comparing the men and women serving our country to concentration camp guards do the Congress and country a great disservice,' Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham tweeted.
From the Depths, a millennial-run group, posted this open letter invitation on Facebook Friday
They invited Ocasio-Cortez on the tour, led by Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg (pictured)
The tour would include visits to Mauthausen, Auschwitz-Birkenau (pictured) and Majdanek concentration camps, among others
On Wednesday, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House minority leader, told press that she should apologize 'not only to the nation but to the world' for what she tweeted.
'She does not understand what is going on at the border at the same time. There is no comparison. To actually say that is embarrassing,' McCarthy said.
'To take somewhere in history where millions of Jews died, and equate that to somewhere that's happening on the border, she owes this nation an apology.'
Despite the backlash,
