London-born Ferdinand at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial. The teenager said he feared his Muslim peers would kill him

A British teenager who is the grandson of Holocaust survivors has described how he was beaten and abused by Muslim classmates at a leading school in Berlin because he was Jewish.

Ferdinand, 14, who was born in London to a British mother and a German father, told The Sunday Times he feared for his life after being repeatedly kicked and punched by students of Middle Eastern and Turkish origin. One of them even threatened to shoot him with a mock gun he believed was real.

The case is under investigation by prosecutors and has added to soul-searching in Germany over the rise of anti-semitism in immigrant communities. It was cited in a damning report by a government advisory body that recommended the creation of an