Rubin was born on June 18, 1929, in Pásztó, a Hungarian town with a Jewish population of 120 families, one of six children (by three marriages[REF]) of shoemaker Ferenc Rubin [REF].
When Tibor was 13, Ferenc and Rosa Rubin (stepmother[REF]) tried to send him to safety in neutral Switzerland, but he was caught and sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.