Luiz Lorch

Luiz Lorch was born in Germany in 1894, where he studied medicine. He married Luiza Klabin in 1924 and, in 1928, immigrated to Brazil. As from 1933, with the arrival of Nazism to power, many Jewish immigrants from Germany began to arrive in Brazil and the couple Luiz and Luiza Lorch became the center of German-Jewish life in the city and the heart of an informal network of support for immigrants