Is something /u/acompulsivelair posted over at r/AskHistorians:
Was there any case of conversation from Judaism to Christianity to save one’s neck during the holocaust? from AskHistorians
The answer is yes, but it didn’t really save people, as Nazis did also exterminate people whose parents did convert:
https://www.evangelisch.de/inhalte/161218/16-10-2019/so-erging-es-christen-juedischer-herkunft-der-ns-zeit
There are some cases of children who were adopted by Christian families or who were claimed to be their kids that survived, including some contemporary witnesses who still do the antifascist work of remembering us of what was so it doesn’t happen again.
https://www.yadvashem.org/
For example has some biographies about survivors and also victims.
There were cases in which [Jews did convert to Islam](https://www.zeit.de/wissen/geschichte/2018-03/muslime-zweiter-weltkrieg-adolf-hitler-islam-juden/seite-4) and again it was a throw of dice if Nazis would stop their extermination or not.
Remember: The Shoa and Holocaust were not only located within the borders of Europe proper.
If you can add with factual sources and information feel free to contribute to answering the question from a more popular angle till AskHistorians does their thing.
In general: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbkk3vk is also a good overview of the mixture of Jewish identities in Germany for modern times.
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That’s why you fake the documents and then join the SS to strongarm the local priest do do the same 😎.
That’s what my family did and we are still here.
The question is pretty much answered by looking at the differentiation between antijudaism (like in the middle ages to early modern age) and antisemitism. The latter is not stopped by conversion as the negative connotations are no longer bound to your religion but to the race itself and it is really fucking hard to change ones own race.