Tim Walz's remembrance of Anne Frank
David Seidenberg
"Jews everywhere -- you are being played for fools. Tim Walz is an amazing ally to Jewish communities and has worked as a Holocaust educator, and he spoke beautifully when he invoked Anne Frank, but USHMM found a way to attack him. JD Vance issued a statement about the Shoah that whitewashes the whole “darkest chapter” without mentioning who were the victims, and USHMM is silent."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/partisan-hackery-the-downfall-of-the-us-holocaust-museum/
more from the article:
Let’s remember what Tim Walz said:
We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is going to write that children’s story about Minnesota, and there’s one person who can end this now. No. Is he misusing Anne Frank’s memory? Not even slightly. He is trying to give his community courage to stand up in the face of violent repression.
He’s saying, “People will remember the story of your bravery and humanity.” Children and parents will take courage when they learn our story. Just like people wrote books about Anne Frank’s bravery, courage, and love for the world, long after the end of the Shoah (Holocaust), so too will people remember what Minnesotans did, long after the siege is over. That’s exactly one of the right lessons to learn from Anne Frank’s story.
There is no better way to honor Anne Frank then to let her memory be both a blessing and a revolution.
shabbat shalom,
David Seidenberg
P.S. I will have a some new Tu Bishvat resources on the website come Saturday night, from what people have sent me this week.