This Jewish man survived Nazi Germany. Now he's rescuing Christians from ISIS

cna ^ | July 17, 2015

[NYer]

George Weidenfeld at the Axel Springer 100th Anniversary Ceremony on May 2, 2012. Credit: Getty Images.

London, England, Jul 17, 2015 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).-

George Weidenfeld was barely eighteen when Nazi forces occupied his homeland of Austria in 1938. He may not have lived to see his 95th birthday – celebrated this year – if not for the selflessness and generosity of Christians during World War II. 

 

Weidenfeld was one of countless other Jewish youths who were evacuated from Nazi-occupied countries and resettled in England through Christian-led initiatives similar to the famous Kindertransport train program. When he arrived in England, Weidenfeld said Christians fed him, clothed him and supported his resettlement. 

 

Today it seems the tables have turned as Christian persecution across the globe reaches unprecedented levels. And in an effort to repay some of the generosity he received during World War II, Weidenfeld has launched a new program to rescue persecuted Christians in the Middle East. 

 

The Weidenfeld Safe Havens Fund aims to rescue a projected 2,000 Christians from Syria and Iraq over the next two years. 

 

“I had a debt to repay.” Weidenfeld told The Times. “It applies to so many young people who were brought on the Kindertransports. It was the Quakers and other Christian denominations who brought those children to England.”

 

“It was very (a) very high-minded operation and we Jews should also be thankful and do something for the endangered Christians.” 

 

The Fund sponsored its first rescue just last week, flying 150 Syrian Christians to Poland on a privately chartered plane. 

 

The new initiative has faced some criticism for its exclusion of other persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East, including Yazidis, Druze and Shia Muslims. But Weidenfeld has defended his initiative’s narrow focus.

 

“I can't save the world,” he said. “But there is a very specific possibility on the Christian side.” 

 

Weidenfeld appears to have been inspired by the late Nicholas Winton, who rescued more than 10,000 Jewish children during World War II through his Kindertransport train initiative. 

[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[knarf]

Humanity ping

[OttawaFreeper]

Careful not to have this man upstage the rich boy from Honolulu. After all, didn’t we read about how Jewish he was in his soul not too long ago?

[Gen.Blather]

I would think the Pope should be doing something. Perhaps he is, but we’re not hearing about it. The church is rich enough to send in armed contractors to rescue large numbers.

It would appear, though, that Popes don’t do that sort of thing today. In earlier years the Jesuits were similar to shock troops.

[MuttTheHoople]

The Pope is a Marxist sympathizer, an adherent to Liberation Theology. He’s not going to save real Christians.

[Guenevere]

Bless this good man.......paying it forward!

[reviled downesdad]

I have recently read a children’s book to my grandkids titled “In My Pocket” that’s about the Kindertransport train. It’s authored by a woman who took it on her trip to England.

[ravenwolf]

Mathew 25
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

[af_vet_1981]

“I can't save the world,” he said. “But there is a very specific possibility on the Christian side.”

Weidenfeld appears to have been inspired by the late Nicholas Winton, who rescued more than 10,000 Jewish children during World War II through his Kindertransport train initiative.

I love it.

“There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct.
There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living.
These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark.
They light the way for humankind.”
Hannah Senesh

[af_vet_1981]

Mathew 25
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Amen

[af_vet_1981]

This man is a hero.

[SJackson]

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[lbryce]

He’s too busy lecturing the world on the dangers of “Global Warming” than on the butchery of his Christian kin.

[lbryce]

In contrast to this appreciative survivor to the ones that saved him another Jewish man who survived the Holocaust on the will and determination of the United states Jew George Soros
has contributed much to the unraveling of this once great country.