Steve Maman’s rescue teams have helped save 128 Christian & Yazidi women & girls in Iraq, saying: ‘What motivates me is being Jewish. Being part of a people who survived the Holocaust, we waited 6 years for people to help us.’

By Tzipi Shmilovitz

Canadian Jewish businessman Steve Maman has earned the nickname “the Jewish Schindler” after establishing an organization that saves Christian and Yazidi-Kurdish women and girls in Iraq who were kidnapped by the Islamic State.

The CYCI (Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq) is a secret project that has so far led to the release of 128 young women and girls from ISIS captivity. 

Yazidi refugees escaping the Islamic State in Iraq – Photo: Reuters/File

The terror group has taken some 2,700 women captive, torturing them and using them as sex slaves. 

Maman keeps the process through which he brings to the release of these women under wraps, but insists his organization doesn’t just buy their freedom. Continue Reading »