AP reports from Larnaca that a new Jewish museum in Cyprus aims to be a bridge-builder to the Arab world and beyond, a place where visitors who may never set foot in Israel can learn about the Jewish faith, the Holocaust and the tumultuous beginnings of the Jewish state.
Items going on display in the seven-story structure in Larnaca will include some of more than 100 Torah scrolls — Judaism’s holiest book — that Russian authorities found in the Nazis’ possession and which for decades were kept at a military installation 450 kilometers (280 miles) east of Moscow.
Through a number of state-of-the-art virtual reality exhibits at the new museum, visitors donning head-mounted gear will get a sense of the internment camps of Cyprus, where the island’s then-British rulers held more than 51,000 Jews fleeing post-World War II Europe. Another floor will give visitors a sense of the Nazi concentration camps where millions of Jews and others were executed in the Holocaust, while a third floor will exhibit the sights and sounds of Jerusalem.
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