Professor Bernardo Riedel comes from a Jewish family. His father, Mauricio Riedel was originally from Lodz, Poland and his mother, Paula Fuhrmann, from Kecskemét, Hungria. They came to Brazil in 1930 and after trying to live in Rio de Janeiro, which they found to be too hot, they went to São Paulo and after finding it to be too humid, they finally ended up settling with the suave climate of Belo Horizonte. His grandparents o...