Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind doesn’t want gays, political prisoners, gypsies, the handicapped — or any other group of people persecuted and killed by the hundreds of thousands during the Holocaust — to be recognized at the city-owned Holocaust Memorial Park in Sheepshead Bay. Even though 5 million non-Jews were killed by the Nazis alongside the 6 million Jews, Hikind says that “to include these other groups diminishes their memory.” Hikind’s mother, who survived the prison camp at Auschwitz, was with him when he made his announcement. “These people are not in the same category as Jewish people with regards to the Holocaust,” he said. “It is so vastly different. You cannot compare political prisoners with Jewish victims.” [NYP]
