Mr. Rubenstein. No, he wouldn’t anyway. I don’t think he is the type of a man who would mention things like that. He always felt that he belonged. We, the Jewish problem was never really brought up. We felt like if you did you were a coward. The Jewish problem was always kept to ourselves. Even when I went to high school there wasn’t too many Jewish people there but we tried to belong. We tried to face it.
Mr. Griffin. And your father; I take it from what you say, was very much this kind of a man that he didn’t outwardly voice any feelings of sensitivity or separation because of the fact that he was Jewish in a——
Mr. Rubenstein. I doubt it. I doubt if he would have said anything. No, not with him. But if you asked me that about somebody else in our family——
Mr. Griffin. How about your mother?
Mr. Rubenstein. No, no; I don’t think she—she just wanted to look out for my welfare. My mother was very much interested in the welfare, how we got along, how we got along at school and how our progress was going with us in Chicago.
Mr. Griffin. Now, I take it from what you say also that if your father had any family back in Europe once he came to this country he didn’t maintain contact with them?
Mr. Rubenstein. I don’t think he ever got one letter. I don’t remember ever hearing a word of his family in Europe; not one word. We would have known about it. If he heard anything about the family indirectly it was through somebody else. Somebody else from his home town might have gotten a letter and mentioned the fact that so and so——
Mr. Griffin. Did he go into the service with any of his brothers?
Mr. Rubenstein. Who?
Mr. Griffin. Your father.