Sousa Mendes Foundation presents: Crypto-Jews and the Search for Identity

A  new documentary film Between the Stone and the Flower: The Duality of  the Conversos profiles the life and work of the renowned genealogist  Genie Milgrom. After successfully tracing her Jewish roots to  pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal, she founded the Converso Genealogy  Project. In this capacity she helps other “crypto-Jews” or “conversos”  to reclaim their Jewish roots and is now overseeing the vast  international effort to digitize the Vatican’s Jewish records. This event is brought to you by the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Register today: https://tinyurl.com/SousaMendesCryptoJews

Genie  Milgrom was born in Havana, Cuba, into a Roman Catholic family of  Spanish ancestry. In an unparalleled work of genealogy, she was able to  fully document her unbroken maternal lineage 22 generations going back  as far as 1405 to her Jewish ancestors in pre-Inquisition Spain and  Portugal. She is the past president of the Jewish Genealogical Society  of Greater Miami and past president of…