From an artcile in the NY POST:
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."
Shame on him. For more information about the persecution of queers by the Nazi's during the Holocaust, check this out.
Posted on
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
by B.J. Caldwell
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