Beyond the Secret Annex https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/10/beyond-the-secret-annex/

October 15, 2013 | Edward Rothstein
About the author: Edward Rothstein is Critic at Large at the Wall Street Journal. His essays in Mosaic include “The Problem with Jewish Museums” and “Jerusalem Syndrome at the Met.”

A new exhibit at Los Angeles’s Museum of Tolerance restores Anne Frank’s diary to its horrific historical context—and then distills that context into fantasy and platitudes.

Read more on New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/arts/design/museum-of-tolerance-inaugurates-an-anne-frank-exhibition.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1381793256-J6/E48bnlJdld+UzCOvVDA