Was Vice President Ross Jewish during World War II?

1648, a man named chris martin van Roosevelt came here. As a scholar of family genealogy, franklin roosevelt once said: "I only know one thing about the origin of the Roosevelt family in China, that is, all branches with this surname obviously came from a man named chris martin van Roosevelt, who moved from Holland some time before 1648-even this age is uncertain." I don't know where he comes from in Holland or who his parents are ... "

Like many immigrants who came to the United States before and after this, Chris also threw away his past history when crossing the Atlantic. No one knows whether he is tall or short, white or black, or how old he was when he came to New Amsterdam, a Dutch settlement scattered at the end of Manhattan. Because of this mysterious fog surrounding the ancestors of the family, some people in the Roosevelt family who often don't respect their ancestors suggested that he might be a villain "only a stone's throw away from the bailiff", just as Alice Roosevelt Longworth once said. Franklin roosevelt was once asked whether this family was originally Jewish, and he replied, "A long time ago, they might have been Jews, Catholics or Protestants. I am more concerned about whether they are good citizens and followers of God. I hope they are all. "

There are few clues about Chris's past. One clue is his name. His name translated into English means Nicholas, Martin's son, a native of Rosefield. At that time, the Dutch added their father's name and birthplace after baptism. There are more than a dozen different spellings of the family name in the past records-Rosinfelt, Rosewelt, Rosvelt, Rasswelt and so on. It shows that the ancestral home of the Roosevelt family is Torun Island at the mouth of the Rhine River. There used to be a piece of land called Rose Field, and the famous Van Roosevelt family once lived in this area. Their Latin motto "whoever plants can survive" was inherited by the Roosevelt family in the United States.

Shortly after arriving in the United States, Chris and his wife Janet (believed to be the daughter of an Englishman named Thomas samuels who immigrated to the Netherlands) bought 48 acres of farmland a few miles away from the wooden fence (hence the name Wall Street), near the hillside of Murray Hill. Chris and Jenny have six children, five of whom have grown up. The only surviving son is Nicholas. He is the closest ancestor of theodore roosevelt and franklin roosevelt, and the first person in the family who has a relationship with the Hudson River basin. He became a fur dealer here. After profiting from the fur business, he returned to new york, opened a flour mill, started buying real estate, entered politics, and was elected as a city senator. It was also during this period that the word "Fan" in the family name disappeared and all kinds of spellings were unified as Roosevelt. Nicholas has two sons, one is Johannes, or John, who is the ancestor of a branch of the family in Oster Bay. The other is Jacobs, or James, the ancestor of a branch of Hyde Park Village.