Holocaust survivor shares her story with Emirati and Jewish children in Dubai

Holocaust survivor shares her story with Emirati and Jewish children in Dubai

A Holocaust survivor shared her life story with schoolchildren in Dubai on Wednesday, in a public exchange symbolizing deepening ties between Jews and Arabs in the Gulf.

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Eve Kugler recounted the memory of how her family was terrorized in Nazi Germany – addressing Emirati and Jewish schoolchildren on the 84th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom.

“It’s historic, and it is an amazing honor,” Kugler told Al Arabia English. “I don’t know how this could have happened, but it is historic and it is hugely, hugely important, hopefully, as a first step to more personal contact between the Arab nations and Jewish people.”

More personal contact between different groups of people should promote understanding and lessen the chance of prejudice and violence, she added.

Kugler later visited the emirate’s Crossroads of Civilizations Museum where she inaugurated a new chapter of the March of the Living foundation – a global Holocaust remembrance group.

The 91-year-old described to schoolchildren how her family heard a knock on their door on the evening of November 9, 1938 in the city of Halle in Germany.

A group of Nazis burst into the family home, along with the local police