A Jewish man organized a rescue mission to save Christians from ISIS persecution. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

A Jewish man organized a rescue mission to save Christians from ISIS persecution. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

A Jewish man in the U.K. is funding the rescue of up to 2,000 Christian families from Islamic State terrorists in Syria and Iraq to show his gratitude for the Christians who saved him from Nazi persecution, The Independent reported on Tuesday.

Lord Weidenfeld, 94, is funding the resettlement project Operation Safe Haven, which last week financed the flight of 150 Syrian Christians to Poland, where they will seek refugee. The fund aims to offer 12-18 months of paid support to the refugees, according to The Independent.

The former publisher said he has “a debt to repay” to Christians because as a child they provided him with food and clothing, and helped him reach Britain after he fled Nazi-occupied Austria. In 1938, a year before the start of World War II, he arrived in Britain on a train part of the Kindertransport rescue effort that brought thousands of refugee Jewish children to the U.K.

“I had a debt to repay. It applies to so many young people who were on the Kinderstransports,” he said. “It was Quakers and other Christian denominations who brought those children to England.”

“It was very high-minded operation and we Jews should also be thankful and do something for the endangered Christians,” he added.

Lord Weidenfeld said he hopes to repeat the work done by Sir Nicholas Winton, who organized Kinderstransport trains and saved 669 youths from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. The famed humanitarian died on July 1.

Operation Save Haven has faced criticism for excluding Muslims, who have also been persecuted and forced from their homes by ISIS.

Lord Weidenfeld defended the project’s focus on Christians saying, “I can’t save the world, but there is a very specific possibility on the Christian side. Let others do what they like for the Muslims.”

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Source:: The Algemeiner

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