Vasily Deyelenko, a Ukrainian from Eastern Galicia, was converted to Judaism here today in order to marry a Jewish girl whose name is Hitler.
The girl comes from a family which has carried the name Hitler for generations. The Polish government recently granted permission to one member of this family to change his name.
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