A former neo-Nazi who is now a chassidic Jew, someone who traded his repugnant and racist views for exchanged his fascist ideology for the Torah and a love of Judaism.
Pawel Bramson is perhaps the most unlikely example of the Jewish revival in Poland.
And now he will tell his story in Manchester, speaking about his experiences at the Holy Law Synagogue on Monday (8pm).
Pawel says Poland is finally showing signs of shedding the rabid antisemitism which has plagued its past.
Before 1939, it was home to more than three million Jews, more than 90 per cent of whom were killed by the Nazis.
Of the fewer than 50,000 who remained in Poland, many abandoned or hid their Judaism during decades of Communist oppression in which political pogroms against Jews persisted.
The small Jewish revival has been under way for several years around eastern Europe.
Hundreds of Poles, the majority of them raised as Catholics, are either converting to Judaism or discovering Jewish roots submerged for decades in the aftermath of the Second World War.
And, in the last five years, Warsaw's Jewish community had grown to 600 families from 250.
For example, the cafes and bars of the old Jewish quarter in Krakow brim with young Jewish converts listening to Israeli hip-hop music.
Pawel, who was born and brought up in the capital, Warsaw, told the Jewish Telegraph: "When I was growing up, antisemitism was actively encouraged by the government.
"Us Poles thought all the problems we had was the Jews' fault.
"I was antisemitic and all my friends were antisemitic."
Pawel and his friends shaved their heads, carried knives and greeted one another with the raised right arm gesture of the Nazi salute.
The 34-year-old's epiphany came when he was 22 and his wife, Paulina, suspecting she had Jewish roots, went to a genealogical institute.
She discovered Pawel's maternal grandparents on a register of Warsaw Jews, along with her own grandparents.
His maternal grandmother was Jewish and had survived the Holocaust after being hidden in a monastery by a group of nuns.
And his paternal grandfather, who was also Jewish, had seven brothers and sisters, most of whom had died in the Holocaust.
"Obviously, I did not know what it was like to be a Jew before, but I am not really proud of who I am," Pawel, who also uses the Hebrew name Pinchas.
Pawel is being brought to Britain by Chabad of Oxford. Apart from his date at Manchester's Holy Law shul, he will also speak to students at Oxford and in London.
He speaks of his life as a racist with horror.
Pawel remembered: "We would beat up local Jewish, Arab and black children.
"My friends and I believed that only Poles should live in Poland.
"I do think, though, that antisemitism has improved over the last 15 years - it is not as bad as it once was."
Pawel's conversion process happened after he went to see Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of Poland.
He explained: "I talked to him and started going to the synagogue.
"I began to learn about Judaism and, after speaking with the rabbi, I knew that this was a big responsibility and I felt that I had to go through with converting to Judaism."
Pawel was circumcised and converted to ultra-Orthodox Judaism - perhaps a sign of going from one extreme to the other.
"My family were supportive, but there were other people who were not," he recalled.
Pawel, who has two children, is training to be a shochet.
"I am now proud of who I am," he added.
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