sentences:  Against the wishes of his relatives there, he went later to Bahia de Todos os Santos, the colony's capital, where he was recognized as a Jew, arrested by the Portuguese Inquisition, and sent to Lisbon where he died as a Jewish martyr.Heightened antisemitism in Brazil in the 1900s reached its peak during 1933–1945 with the ascent of Nazism in Germany.Brazil blocked its doors to an influx of Jewish refugees from Europe during the Holocaust.