US Holocaust Museum condemns Walz’s comparing Minnesotans to Anne Frank

The U.S. Holocaust Museum sharply criticized comments made by Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) in which he likened the impact of federal immigration enforcement in his state to the experiences of Anne Frank. 

The Holocaust Museum said in an X post Monday that the events in Minnesota and the systematic extermination of Jewish people in the Holocaust are inherently different.

“Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable,” the museum said in a statement. “Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.”

In a Sunday press conference, Walz dramatized the fear felt by immigrant families and children amid DHS’s Operation Metro Surge.

The federal enforcement