WASHINGTON — The Holocaust Museum rebuked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for drawing a parallel between the horrors Anne Frank chronicled while under Nazi occupation and President Trump’s immigration crackdown in his state.
In a seemingly scripted close to his Sunday press conference, Walz (D) predicted that someone is going to write a story similar to Frank’s famous diary about the immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.
“Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish,” the Holocaust Museum shot back in a stern rebuke of Walz that didn’t mention him by name.
“Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.”
Frank spent more than two years in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and detailed her experiences in a diary that later became one of the most famous books in the world.
She was eventually captured and died in a concentration camp.
“We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside,” Walz fumed during a tense press conference Sunday. “Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank.”
“Somebody’s going to write that children’s story about Minnesota.”
The Post contacted Walz’s office for comment.
The Holocaust Museum, which is located in Washington, DC, on the National Mall, is an independent entity that receives a mix of both government grants and private sector funds. Its director, Sara Bloomfield, has been in charge since 1999.
Trump’s team has been putting pressure on federally run museums in the nation’s capital to scrap woke messaging and champion American history. But those efforts did not appear to extend to the Holocaust Museum.
Since last month, the Trump administration has marshalled thousands of federal immigration officers to Minnesota as part of Operation Metro Surge.
Some 3,000 immigration personnel are in Minneapolis, which has a local police force of about 600, according to Mayor Jacob Frey.
On Monday, Trump announced that he is dispatching border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota to coordinate enforcement operations there in the wake of unrest over the federal presence there and the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Walz and Trump also had a call earlier in the day to discuss the chaos gripping Minnesota.
“Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
“He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I!”
Walz later described the conversation as “productive,” and claimed that the president agreed to “look into reducing the number of federal agents” in his state.
