“I can’t save the world… but I had a debt to repay. It was Quakers and Christians who brought those [Kindertransport] children to England. It was a very high-minded operation and we Jews should also be thankful and do something for the endangered Christians.”
Above: Lord George Weidenfeld
Lord George Weidenfeld, a noted British publisher and philanthropist, whose last major philanthropic endeavor was to save Syrian Christians from ISIS, has passed away at age 96. The JC reports:
…In 2015, aged 95, the peer funded a rescue mission for Christians in Syria and Iraq – the Weidenfeld Safe Haven Fund. It flew 150 people to Warsaw in July.
At the time he said: “I can’t save the world… but I had a debt to repay. It was Quakers and Christians who brought those [Kindertransport] children to England. It was a very high-minded operation and we Jews should also be thankful and do something for the endangered Christians.”
He said that he hoped to mirror the work done by Sir Nicholas Winton, who helped 669 children escape from Nazi persecution.…
Former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain Jonathan Sacks praised Weidenfeld and told The JC Weidenfeld had developed a plan to save 20,000 Syrian Christians "as a way of thanking Christians who saved Jewish lives in the Holocaust."
You can read Weidenfeld's full JC obituary here.