(JTA) — A British man whose grandfather survived the Holocaust said he would move to Israel when he is done fighting Islamists in Syria.
Timothy Paul Jacobs-Woodworth, 37, revealed his plan to immigrate in an interview published Sunday by the news site Ynet. One of Jacobs-Woodworth’s grandfathers survived the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, after losing his mother at Auschwitz-Birkenau and his father in Theresienstadt.
But Jacobs-Woodworth’s Jewish grandfather converted to Christianity after the Holocaust, and he was brought up as a Christian.
Still, Jacobs-Woodworth, who used to be a soldier in the British army, considers himself to be of Jewish origin and …read more
Source: JTA
