A reclusive neo-Nazi who co-runs the white supremacist Daily Stormer website , and recently said Jewish children "deserve to die," has Jewish relatives on “both sides of his family,” his mother told Newsweek.

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, who handles the technical side of Stormer alongside editor Andrew Anglin, said on a podcast last month that Jews were to blame for the website's loss of its dot com address after a white man allegedly killed peaceful protester Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. Subsequently, the site has been forced to jump around the internet.

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Newsweek has been unsuccessful in contacting Auernheimer, who is allegedly been living in the Ukraine after serving jail time over a computer hacking incident. Auernheimer’s Jewish heritage was first reported by Gawker in 2012, though Auernheimer denied the report. Adrian Chen, the author of the story, told Newsweek that the infamous troll volunteered the information about his Jewish ancestry during an interview.

And his mother has confirmed it. Alyse Auernheimer told Newsweek that he was saddened that her son had wished death on children. She added that she had been estranged from him for over a decade.

“He doesn’t like us,” she said, adding that her son comes from a “large, mixed race family” with Native American heritage, and that he most certainly has Jewish lineage “on both sides of his family.”

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