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Her other major objection to the way the Holocaust is framed – part of a larger critique – are the efforts to universalize Hitler’s victims, which she sees as a form of eliminating Jewish and Yiddish religion culture from the narrative. This ranges from Anne Frank to “Daniel,” the fictional hero of “Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story,” the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s children’s exhibition about a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. Horn takes issue with the need to portray Jews who suffered and died in the Holocaust as being similar to the people viewing the exhibition. Avoided is the fact that so many of them lived visibly Jewish lives.

Why, she asks, did the experts who put the exhibit together choose soccer trophies and Daniel’s father’s war medals to display on his bedroom wall instead of his Jewish study books or Zionist scout uniform?

“Because the people who died in the Holocaust weren’t all just like you and me. Actually, a lot of people who died were [ultra-Orthodox] Hasidim. So is the message that it would be okay to murder them because they weren’t like you and me? If they have different clothes and different hairstyles, is it then totally fine to murder them? … Why do we care about how these people died if we really aren’t interested in how they lived?” she asks.

“The project of the Holocaust was to erase a civilization,” she continues. ”So why are we participating in that by also doing that? We’re not valuing the civilization that was destroyed – and maybe part of the problem was that nobody at the time valued the civilization that was destroyed either.”

Instead of educating against bigotry by pushing a line of “everybody is really the same,” she believes “the goal should be to encourage curiosity about, you know, different ways of being in the world.”

Another irritant for Horn is the argument that antisemitism must be confronted because Jews are canaries in the coal mine, and a society plagued by Jew hatred is clearly heading toward intolerance, hate and Nazi-style fascism. It irks her most when it’s Jews who are making that case.

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