MINNESOTA (TNND) — The U.S. Holocaust Museum condemned Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after he compared the experience of children dealing with immigration enforcement to that of Holocaust victim Anne Frank.

Walz made the comparison during a news conference on Sunday while speaking out against the deadly shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents.

"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," Walz said. "Somebody's going to write that children's story about Minnesota."

Frank was one of six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. She spent two years in hiding before dying at age 15.

"Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish," the museum responded in a statement shared on X. "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."

The Trump administration has been under scrutiny after claims from a Minnesota school district that a 5-year-old boy was "taken" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Zena Stenvik, superintendent of Columbia Heights Public Schools, claimed in a news conference that ICE had detained Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias and his son, Liam Conejo Ramos, in their driveway just after the child returned home from preschool.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disputed the report, saying the child was not a target of ICE but was abandoned by his father when officers attempted to arrest him.

Officials further explained that for the child's safety, ICE officers remained with the boy while other agents apprehended his father.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed on Jan. 27 across the world on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of the Nazi German death camps.