In 1938 Austria was invaded by the Third Reich (Germany under Hitler). A Jewish child by the name of Weidenfeld was among a group of children rescued from Nazi occupation of his homeland and brought to Britain by Christians (Quakers and Plymouth Brethren).
That boy grew up in Britain, started a successful publishing company, and became a peer in the House of Lords. Today he's 95 years old, and says he has a debt to pay in gratitude for those Christians who rescued him from the Nazis.
He's going to pay it forward by helping about 2,000 Christians escape from Syria and Iraq. Thousands have been killed or driven away from their homes by the Islamic State (ISIS). For lots of information on this, click on "Iraq" under Labels to the right.
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