Reply To: Where to start becoming Jewish when family roots discovered

Hello shein and everyone,

I believe that my maternal grandmother was born and raised Jewish for part of her life, before fleeing with her mother and siblings from Germany to Brazil between the World Wars, and then coming to the U.S. about a decade later. Aside from the timing and circumstances of my relatives’ flight, other indicators to me were last names in the family tree, old family recipes that are Jewish, and some statements from my maternal grandmother that Judaism is the only true religion.

It would have to be verified I’m sure that they were indeed Jewish (I guess through available documents in Germany and/or Brazil) so that I would know whether I have to undergo a conversion or not.