Wiki article about Luzia, the (allegedly) human fossil lost in the Rio National Museum fire:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzia_Woman
Mmmm.
Out of curiosity, I decided to dig into the director of the Brazilian National Museum. He is a Liechtensteiner paleontologist called Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner. Interesting surname. I found this interview:
http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/2015/06/16/alexander-wilhelm-armin-kellner-nas-assas-do-passado/
I found the following question and answer (((intresting))):
>Como você veio parar no Brasil?
>Meu pai era alemão e nasceu em 1926. Onde ele estava por volta de 1945? Sabe aqueles garotos do filme A queda, sobre o Hitler, que ficavam em Berlim totalmente sem noção? Consigo visualizar meu pai como um deles. Ele se deu mal na guerra, perdeu toda a família, chegou a ser preso pelos russos, mas fugiu e depois foi capturado pelos americanos. Foi liberado por um oficial judeu, porque era um pobre coitado. Meu pai começou então a trabalhar com compra e venda de terrenos e ficava entre a Áustria e a Suíça. Ele veio ao Brasil na década de 1960 com minha mãe, que era austríaca e faleceu no ano passado. Ela me teve com 17 anos, quando estava passando por acaso em Liechtenstein. Durante meus quatro primeiros anos, fiquei com minha avó na Áustria até eles se estabelecerem aqui. Em 1965, minha mãe me buscou e, desde então, estou no Brasil.
Translation:
How did you end up in Brazil?
My father was a German; he was born in 1926. Where was he around 1945? Do you remember those boys from that movie about Hitler, Downfall, wandering around completely clueless in Berlin? I can picture my father as one of them. He suffered with the war; he lost all his family and was even arrested by the Russians and then captured by the Americans. He was released by a Jewish official because he was a nobody. Then my father began to buy and sell land for a living and kept moving between Austria and Switzerland. He came to Brazil in the 1960s with my mother, who was an Austrian; she died last year. I was born when she was 17; she was in Liechtenstein by chance. In my first four years of my life, I lived with my grandmother in Austria until they settled here. In 1965, my mom picked me up, and I have been in Brazil ever since.
A supplementary piece of information: Brazil has always had a lot of crypto-Jews, particularly in Rio. It's an old Iberian thing.