(JTA) — The British grandson of a Holocaust survivor said he will move to Israel when he is done fighting Islamists in Syria.
Timothy Paul Jacobs-Woodworth, 37, revealed his plan in an interview published Sunday by the news website Ynet. One of Jacobs-Woodworth’s grandfathers survived the Dachau concentration camp after losing his mother at Auschwitz-Birkenau and his father at Theresienstadt.
But Jacobs-Woodworth’s Jewish grandfather converted to Christianity after the Holocaust and was brought up as a Christian.
Still, Jacobs-Woodworth, a former British soldier, considers himself to be of Jewish origin and has drawn Hebrew-language graffiti reading “Nachman me’Uman” — a slogan of the …read more
Source: JTA
