"John Kerry [Entered the race claiming to be a Catholic until it was revealed that he's actually Jewish, a "surprise" according to Kerry, but nonetheless a FACT]"
ahahha, oh boy
HORNI BENESOV, Czech Republic — What began for genealogist Felix Gundacker as a brief assignment from an American newspaper has become a yearlong obsession — tracking Sen. John Kerry’s Jewish family roots in this forlorn Moravian village.
“I did nearly nothing else the past year — it was fascinating,” Mr. Gundacker said in an interview Monday. “It was interesting to learn the circumstances” of why the family changed its name from Kohn to Kerry and eventually moved to the United States.
The story, unraveled by Mr. Gundacker at the behest of the Boston Globe, has turned up several surprises, not least that Mr. Kerry’s paternal grandfather was born into a Jewish family as Friedrich “Fritz” Kohn and converted to Roman Catholicism as a young man in the face of rampant anti-Semitism.
Two cousins whose branch of the family remained Jews died in Nazi concentration camps while others survived the Holocaust.
And, according to family lore, the name Kerry was chosen entirely by chance when Fritz Kohn’s elder brother dropped a pencil on a map and it landed on County Kerry, Ireland.
“This is amazing. That is fascinating to me,” Mr. Kerry told the Globe last year as the results of Mr. Gundacker’s research were published. Mr. Kerry did not respond to telephone calls and e-mails seeking comment for this article.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/mar/11/20040311-094817-4082r/?page=all
