A German settler named Kurt Neuman has adopted the Jewish religion today in protest against the Nazi persecutions of Jews in Germany.
Herr Neuman is one of the oldest colonists in Brazil. He has lived for a number of years in the Jewish agricultural colony Quatro Irmanos near Porto Alegre.
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