EXPRESS
by Nick Gutteridge
July 15, 2015

A JEWISH peer who fled the Nazis as a child with the help of Christian missionaries is now paying to rescue 2,000 Christians from the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq

Lord Weidenfeld said he has “a debt to repay” to Christians fleeing Islamist fanatics because followers of the religion in Britain helped him escape almost certain death at the hands of genocide-committing dictator Adolf Hitler. ISIS militants have slaughtered hundreds of Christians, who they believe to be heretics, since sweeping to power in large parts of the Middle East last year. Now Lord Widenfeld, a millionaire publisher, is spearheading a drive to fly Christians at risk of torture and death out of ISIS-controlled countries.  He has set up the Weidenfeld Safe Havens Fund, which last week supported the flight of 150 Syrian Christians to Poland on a privately chartered plane. READ MORE