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I'm reading I'm reading a book about conversos now I'm reading a book by a reporter who was brought up as a Catholic and she started finding out that her family was actually she's tracing it back that they were conversos in Spain during the time that the Jews were forced [Music] to uh leave convert to Catholicism or to uh leave convert to Catholicism or Inquisition yeah during that time and she said that the records showed they found recently I think in the late 1900s beginning of 2000 they found these actual records that um were from the Inquisition I don't know if you know about them and it said that her family in Spain they found them no they found in Spain they found them no they found them I'm not sure where they found they found them in a in a library and they exist now and they're um thousands of years old that's from the Inquisition right no not thousands a few hundred how old is that hundreds 1500 uh well the were different Acquisitions which one from the yeah right so so how people were SP spying on other people and the one of the things that her family didn't do is

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1. 0:00I'm reading I'm reading a book about conversos now I'm reading a book by a reporter…
2. 0:33to uh leave convert to Catholicism or Inquisition yeah during that time and she said that…
3. 1:04in Spain they found them no they found them I'm not sure where they found they…
4. 1:35the things that her family didn't do is they went to church but they never took…
5. 2:06children this is a fact it's not well we know that it's historical yeah we know…
6. 2:36they yeah they ratted on them so to speak I don't want to use the word…
7. 3:06listen we can't we can't judge these people you know people under torture it's some people…
8. 3:37him on a platform and told the child push it away let him hang and the…

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