Who knew that Fidel Castro was a New York Jew?

Born the son of Polish immigrants Oscar and Meriam Kastrofski, Fred Kastrofski was raised in Queens, New York until the age of 13. After his bar mitzvah, Freddy rejected his Jewish heritage, left his childhood home, and squatted in a tenement building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was there that he fell under the tutelage of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. He became fascinated with the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles. In order to avoid the WWII draft, he changed his name and fled to Cuba to seek asylum. Disgusted by conditions under the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, the newly named Fidel Castro formed a band of guerrillas whose sole purpose was to seize control of the government and give the country back to the people. It would take him close to twenty years to achieve his goal. Fred Kastrofski died at the age of 90 years old after making his mark as the longest living non-royal leader of the twentieth century.