[edit] Paternal grandparents
It was discovered in 2003 by genealogist Felix Gundacker,[6] working with The Boston Globe, that Kerry's paternal grandparents, who had been born "Fritz Kohn" and "Ida Löwe" in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, changed their names to "Frederick and Ida Kerry" in 1900 and converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism in 1901[7][8] or 1902.[9] Fritz' elder brother Otto had earlier, in 1887[8] or 1896,[6] also changed his name to "Kerry" and converted from Judaism, presumably to escape violent antisemitism. The "Kerry" name, widely misinterpreted as indicative of Irish heritage, was reputedly selected arbitrarily: "According to
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