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11 feb 2008 · Rep. Tom Lantos, who as a teenager twice escaped from a Nazi-run forced labor camp in Hungary and became the only Holocaust survivor to win a seat in Congress, has died. He was 80.
Without fail, Tom Lantos is first in line, champing at the bit to begin his daily ritual of 45 minutes of swimming laps. It’s just the beginning of another long, grueling day of meetings, hearings and deal-making for the 71-year-old Democratic representative from the 12th Congressional District in California.
In 1983, Congressmen Tom Lantos (D-CA) and John Edward Porter (R-IL) founded the bipartisan Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC). The CHRC was dedicated to the defense of all rights codified in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the end of the 106th Congress, Congressman Porter retired from Congress and Congressman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) assumed his responsibilities ...
Tom Lantos was born in Budapest, Hungary, where as a teenager he was sent to a forced labor camp by the German Nazi occupant military. He escaped the labor camp and received refuge with an aunt who lived in a safe house operated by Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who used his official status and visa-issuing powers to save thousands of Hungarian Jews.
Tom Lantos (Lantos Péter Tamás, Budapest, 1928. február 1. – Bethesda, 2008. február 11.) magyar zsidó származású amerikai demokrata párti politikus, 1981-től haláláig az amerikai képviselőház tagja, ahol Kalifornia 12. számú választókerületét képviselte, a ház egyedüli holokauszt-túlélőjeként.
"When I look up [to] the dome, and the flag, I choke up — every morning!"In honor of Jewish-American Heritage Month, we take inspiration from Tom Lantos, a H...
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2 nov 2008 · WASHINGTON — Representative Tom Lantos of California, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress, died on Monday. He was 80.
