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In his moving book, Se questo e un uomo (If this be a man; or Survival in Auschwitz), the Italian Primo Levi wrote that attitudes towards the Jews during the Holocaust mostly ranged from indifference to hostility. In a world of total moral collapse, he said, there was a small minority who mustered extraordinary courage to uphold human values.
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On July 1, 2015 Sir Nicholas Winton died at the age of 106. His parents were German Jews who moved to London, converted to Christianity and baptized their son. Winton, a stockbroker, was a modest man, a great and good man, whose activities were not revealed until 40 years after they had occurred. Conscious of the peril in store for European Jews after Kristallnacht, (the night of broken glass) on November 9, 1938, Winton immediately initiated and organized the rescue of 669 children, mostly Jewish, from Czechoslovakia in 1938-1940.
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Winton joins the rank of those righteous Europeans who saved Jews from a Nazi death. Most well-known of these are Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist credited with saving 1,200 lives by employing them in his factories in Poland; Irena Sendler, the Polish Catholic nurse who smuggled 2,500 Jews out of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942-43 and gave them false identities; and the courageous Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
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In 1938, still a teenager, Lord George Weidenfeld was brought from Vienna to London, where the Plymouth Brethren took him in and provided for him.
lifelong Zionist George Weidenfeld [. . .] himself, born in a cosmopolitan Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, had been aided, as a penniless refugee in London in 1938 after escaping the Nazis in Austria, by members of the Christian group, the Plymouth Brethren, who had transported many other Jews in areas under Nazi control.
Weidenfeld is now repaying a debt to the Christian community. Essentially, the Safe Havens Fund plans to rescue 2,000 Syrian and Iraqi Christians who are suffering from the unprecedented primitive savagery and the lust and sadism of ISIS.
In 2011 there were 1.1 million Christians in Syria, but more than 700,000 have fled since the war began in the country.
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The Western world must have the will to defend itself as the Kurds are doing.
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In Syria, Christians once constituted about a third of the population. In Iraq, the number of Christians has decreased from 1.5 million to 300.000 at most. Christians have been forced to convert to Islam, pay a religious levy (jizya), or get killed. Hundreds of Christians have been kidnaped in some cities.
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Like all Westerners of good will, Lord Weidenfeld and his colleague in the Safe Havens project, Sir Charles Hoare, remain baffled by the lack of real support, and only meaningless rhetoric, from mainstream Christian churches and organizations to help Christians being persecuted in Syria and elsewhere in Muslim countries.
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The mainstream Christian churches have in recent years frittered away their time and energy in discussing the desirability of boycotts of the State of Israel. They are much less concerned in any real way to respond to the reality that the Christian community in the Middle East is facing its greatest crisis. What is significant in this is that it is being largely left to a proud Jew and Zionist George Weidenfeld to rescue Christians. When will those champions of boycott against Israel and Jewish institutions wake up to the truth?
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/lord_weidenfeld_and_help_for_christians.html
December 8, 2015
Lord Weidenfeld and Help for Christians
By Michael Curtis
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