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A plan to honor gays and other non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution in Brooklyn’s Holocaust Memorial Park was blasted Sunday by critics as political pandering. Politicians and community activists gathered at the Sheepshead Bay park Sunday to demand Mayor Bloomberg block a plan they contend undermines the memorial’s core message. “The Holocaust is a uniquely Jewish event,” said Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), whose mother is a Holocaust survivor.

Holocaust Memorial Park doesn’t need addition - Assemblyman Dov Hikind (via Michael J. Smith)