What Counts as a Concentration Camp? Even for Nazi camp survivors who sought to eradicate them, they were hard to define.

CONCENTRATION camp buildings; DETENTION of persons; IMMIGRATION detention centers; CONCENTRATION camps; WORLD War II; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; OCASIO-Cortez, Alexandria, 1989-; ROUSSET, David

The article discusses characteristics of facilities which may be regarded as concentration camps. Topics explored include the way U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likened U.S. border detention centres to concentration camps, the establishment of the International Commission Against the Concentration Camp Regime by Nazi concentration camp survivor David Rousset, and the link between these camps and the Holocaust.