A Torah scroll, which was capable of survive the Holocaust and is seen as the most recent method to understanding the historical past of Jews within the Middle East by Israel and its Arab allies, was unveiled by a non-public museum on Saturday within the United Arab Emirates.

Crossroads of Civilisations Museum’s founder Ahmed Obaid Al Mansoori stated that the show of Torah scrolls, which was unveiled for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, will assist folks struggle the “big denial” of the presence of the Holocaust within the area.

“For us, peace is a complete peace. Many people have forgotten the Jews are part of the region. So here, we’re trying to show … the good days between the Jews and the Arabs in the past,” said Al Mansoori.

The museum has taken the scroll on a permanent loan from the Memorial Scrolls Trust which owns around 1,000 Czech scrolls which have survived the Holocaust and were later sent to London.

“I lived within the Arab world after I was younger, and the time period Holocaust doesn’t exist … So this can be a big step,” Edwin Shuker, vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Iraqi-Jewish businessman, who had facilitated the loan between the two museums, said.

In the Arab world, very little is taught about Nazi Germany’s history of killing around six million Jews by Nazi Germany.

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In a post shared on Twitter earlier this month, the Emirati embassy located in Washington said that Holocaust education would be included in the school syllabus in the UAE, which will be the country in the region to take such a step.

“It’s vital to recollect what occurred. It’s vital to be sure that it’s going to by no means occur once more. And it is vital to face right here collectively, all of us, Israelis, Emiratis and others with a purpose to say: Not anymore,” said Israeli ambassador to the UAE Amir Hayek, while speaking on the sidelines of the museum event.

(With inputs from agencies)

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