Holodomor was nothing compared to the holocaust

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Ukrainian groups oppose museum's Holocaust exhibit
By MYRON LOVE, Prairies Correspondent  

At issue is how the Holocaust will be presented in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, a national museum now under construction in Winnipeg. Despite stating that he doesn't want the issue to degenerate into a fight between Canadian Jews and Ukrainians, Luciuk, as the current director of research and former chairman (2007-2010) of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), is leading the UCCLA's campaign against having a permanent Holocaust gallery in the museum.

The UCCLA and its sister group, the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (UCC), are upset that a report published in September by a 17-member museum-content advisory committee granted permanent gallery space to only the Holocaust and Canada's aboriginal peoples.

The Ukrainian organizations also want equal exhibition space in the museum for the Holodomor, the famine brought about by Stalinist policies in the early 1930s that has been blamed for the deaths of millions of Ukrainians.

"The response to our postcard campaign has been overwhelmingly positive," Luciuk said. "We have a great deal of support for our position that no one ethnic group's suffering should be elevated among others. That is not the Canadian way."

While Luciuk acknowledged that the museum "can't tell the whole story of every mass atrocity," he said the museum should consider thematic galleries.

"Why not have a gallery called 'Canadian Internment Operations' that deals with Ukrainians and others during the First World War, Germans, Italians and Japanese during the Second, the Québécois in 1970?" he asked.

Farber agreed that the Holodomor was "a terrible tragedy," but he said the Holocaust is on an entirely different level and has had "a profound impact" on Canadians and other peoples.