B’nei anusim (in Portuguese, “children forced”) designating the descendants of Jews forcibly converted (anusim) or Marrano is a generic Hebrew expression and historiographical concept that refers to Jews converted to Christianity of the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula that “judaizavam”, that is, who continued to secretly observe their ancient customs and their former religion. 1 2

Are considered B’nei Anusim or Marranos descendants of the Portuguese and Spanish Sephardic Jews who were forced to abandon the Jewish Law and to convert to Christianity, against his will, to escape the persecution by the Inquisition