Moshe Ronen, national president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said his group has no objection to a separate genocide museum, but that the Holocaust museum should go ahead as planned.
The issue has sparked some tension and difference of opinion over the uniqueness of the Holocaust and its place as a defining event of the 20th century.
While Gregorovich criticizes Jewish lobbying for a museum that would concentrate only on Jewish losses, Sol Littman, Canadian representative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, accuses Gregorovich of “issue envy” and said he is manipulating other ethnic associations.
Ronen said that government recognition of the Holocaust’s uniqueness would be meaningful and important to Canada’s Jewish community.
“Our view is that while history is replete with atrocities, the Holocaust is a special case,” he said.