posted on Dec, 17 2005 @ 03:58 AM
I didn't know this about Kerry because I never really researched it but find it very interesting. Did you know he is Jewish and his last name
technically is Kohn, not Kerry.
Read this:
"Kerry's paternal grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry (born Fritz Kohn), was born on May 10, 1873 in the town of Horní Benešov, Austria-Hungary (in
what is now the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic), and grew up in Mödling, Austria (a small town near Vienna). His wife Ida (née
Loewe) was born in Budapest, Hungary. They were both German-speaking Ashkenazi Jews. But in 1901, Fritz Kohn converted from Judaism to Catholicism and
changed his name to Frederick Kerry. His wife Ida also converted at the same time. They then immigrated to the United States, arriving at Ellis Island
in 1905. They raised their three children, including John's father, as Catholics. A Czech historian believes that Ida was a descendant of Sinai Loew,
one of three older brothers of Rabbi Judah Loew (1525-August 22, 1609), a famous Kabbalist, philosopher and talmudist known as the Maharal of Prague.
Two of Ida Kohn's siblings, Otto Loewe and Jenni Loewe, died in the Nazi extermination camps (Theresienstadt and Treblinka, respectively), after
being deported from Vienna in 1942. Frederick Kerry himself committed suicide in the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on November 23, 1921."
en.wikipedia.org...
Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Maharal of Prague)
en.wikipedia.org...
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His grandparents are Fritz Kohn and Née Loewe, who converted to Catholicism and changed there last names to Kerry to enter the U.S. and escape the
Nazis. Which would make him technically John Kohn.