Hungary. a small Jewish village of only 120 people in 1929. At age 13. he was shipped to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. where he spent 14 months. When he was liberated by American troops. he was starving and on the brink of death. Although ibor survived. both his parents and two of his sisters perished in the Holocaust. Mr. Speaker. Tibor Rubin immigrated to New York in 1948 where he worked first as a shoemaker and later as a butcher. When he attempted to enter the U.S. Army butchers school in 1949. he was denied admission after failing the English test. but in 1950 he passed.
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