Moshe Ronen, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, has said that Prime Minister Jean Chreti n has promised Jewish Canadians their own museum, that would apparently focus only on Jewish losses during the Second World War, excluding the millions of non-Jews who perished during the Nazi terror. That is unacceptable to me as a Holocaust survivor. Our proposal in no way diminishes the Shoah or the impact of that terrible crime against humanity on the Jewish people then, or since.
Persons making such comments seem to be intent on genocide-denial.
Unlike them, we are not trying to exclude the memory of any genocide, nor give any war crime or crime against humanity precedence over any other. This is Canada. We live in a multicultural society, one in which we should all become more aware of the tragedies that befell all of our nations and peoples before we came to find sanctuary in this great country. A genocide museum would not only educate us all about the horrors of the past but would, in our view, contribute to nation-building by making us all appreciative how fortunate we are to be able to live together in freedom in Canada.