Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose mother survived the death camp at Auschwitz, said yesterday that only Jews persecuted during the Nazi reign should be honored at a Holocaust memorial in Brooklyn.

Hikind said even though 5 million people from other groups — including gays, the disabled and Jehovah’s Witnesses — were killed along with 6 million Jewish people during the Holocaust, the memorial in Sheepshead Bay should be for Jews only.

“To include these other groups diminishes their memory,” said Hikind, as he stood next to his 89-year-old mother, Frieda. He said he is not against a memorial to honor the other groups — as long as it is somewhere else.

“These people are not in the same category as Jewish people with regards to the Holocaust,” Hikind said following a press conference at the memorial. “It is so vastly different. You cannot compare political prisoners with Jewish victims.”

Hikind’s fiery comments were the latest in an emotional debate over the wording of granite markers at the city-owned Holocaust Memorial Park at Emmons Avenue and Shore Boulevard.

He made his remarks after city officials approved a bid to have markers honoring homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled, political prisoners and Roma and Sinti Gypsies, who were also persecuted and killed by the Nazis.

A Parks Department spokeswoman said the city signed off on the recognition “to reinforce its educational purpose to remind us of the historical circumstances of the Holocaust.”

“There’s no doubt that most of the atrocities at the Holocaust were done upon Jewish people,” said Council Speaker Christine Quinn. “But it goes against history and their memory to not commemorate all groups that were persecuted by the Nazis.”

This morning, Mayor Bloomberg commented on the issues, saying, “It wasn’t only the Jews that were massacred.”

Bloomberg also said that “diversity [at the memorial] is something we want emphasized — not deemphasized.”

Although the memorial already recognizes five of the persecuted groups in the narrative inscribed at the base of its brick tower, advocates have pushed for a more prominent honor among the scores of granite stones that surround the main memorial.

“The Holocaust memorial means you memorialize anyone who died in the Holocaust,” said Theresa Scavo, president of Community Board 15, who lobbied for the additional recognition. “It doesn’t matter what color or sexual orientation you were.”

Additional reporting by Sally Goldenberg and David Seifman