British publisher Lord Weidenfeld, 95, a Jewish peer who was rescued from Nazi-occupied Austria and transported to Britain by Christians in 1938, has pledged to return the favor by funding the rescue of Syrian and Iraqi Christians refugees who are suffering at the hands of ISIS. It’s a debt he says he “has a debt to repay,” he told The Times (UK).
After the onset of World War II, members of the Quakers and Plymouth Brethren Christian denominations coordinated the safe passageway of many of Vienna’s Jewish community out of Vienna to the safety of England. They fed, clothed and provided the transportation for countless Jews to escape Nazi oppression. Weidenfeld, now 95, was among them.
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