[39][40], The American Hungarian Federation recognized Congressman Lantos for his "Leadership in Support of Democracy, Human Rights and Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe", awarding him the organization's highest award, the "Col. Commandant Michael Kovats Medal of Freedom", at the October 19, 2005, Congressional Reception commemorating the 49th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Their legacy lives on in the Tom Lantos Institute in Budapest, Hungary, and the Lantos Foundation for Human Right and Justice in New Hampshire, where Annette is Chair Emerita and one of their daughters, Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett is President. More information on Tom Lantos can be found here. On a bitter cold Christmas eve in 1944, a little Jewish girl, 13 years old but with her diminutive size and Shirley Temple curls looked closer to 8, kissed her mother goodbye and alone began to make her way towards the Swiss border. FOR MANY YEARSDemocrats took a strong role in advocating for human rightsboth at home and abroad. It would have been so much easier to just die," said Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick, at a press conference today to thank the good Samaritans who put out the flames devouring his body. USCIRFs mandate requires it to collect facts and offer independent policy recommendations to the president, the secretary of state, and Congress on religious freedom issuesputting commissioners in close contact with policymakers. Her Hungarian parents, Tom and Annette Lantos, both lost most of their families in the Holocaust. She explained her fathers love for animals and the significance of the Wallenberg portrait hanging beside her desk and read a framed letter Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent to recognize a Lantos statue unveiled last year in Israel. Police, security agencies advise Jews to be on alert ahead of planned National Day of Hate on Shabbat, American citizen killed in latest West Bank shooting amid escalating violence, This Orthodox Jewish model made history at New York Fashion Week. Yvonne Katrina Swett (ne Lantos; born October 8, 1955) is the President of the Lantos Foundation. And in my eyes, the Star of David that was just formed from a yellow Star of David on the torn clothing of a victim into a shining blue Star of David emblazoned on an American Air Force jet and flown by an Israeli fighter pilot, that shining star is Tom Lantos., She finished with the Hebrew blessing, May his memory be blessed.. In subsequent years, he worked as a business consultant and television commentator on subjects of foreign policy. [42], Lantos supported Morocco's demand to gain sovereignty over Western Sahara, and criticized the Polisario Front, which demands independence for the disputed region. As some Democrats de-emphasize traditional human rightsoften in favor of LGBT concernsand Republicans face pressure not to criticize a GOP White House, Swetts example of independence shows it is possible to put policy over politics. Yet his wife, Annette, also a survivor, and daughters Katrina and Annette were Mormons. 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 . (1928-2008) LANTOS, TOM (1928-2008), Democratic congressman from California, the lone Holocaust survivor to serve in the US Congress. I think her father would be very proud.. He had become a hunted animal because he was a young Jewish man, Swett said. Richard Belzer was a Jewish comedian. It absolutely transcends party lines.. Although the Swedish humanitarian was never found, Annette and Congressman Lantos have been instrumental in honoring his legacy through numerous legislative initiatives. 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She moved from her home in Colorado to Baltimore to be treated at Johns Hopkins University, where she also studied at the Peabody Conservatory. At the same hearing, Lantos drew comparisons between some of the current U.S. activities in Iraq to U.S. support two decades earlier of Islamic militants in Afghanistan: America should not be in the business of arming, training and funding both sides of a religious civil war in Iraq. He died before finishing his term. He is a celebrity politician. The Tom Lantos papers document the career of a Hungarian-born American politician who was the only Holocaust survivor to have served in the United States Congress. Annette Lantos, the wife of the late Congressman Tom Lantos, worked full-time in her husband's office throughout his nearly three decades in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the final weeks of his life, Lantos asked that a non-profit be established to carry on the work he felt so passionately about. Theres no Republican position and there is no Democratic position on international religious freedom, said Swett, age 61, who served on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) from 2012 to 2016. Annette Tillemann's childhood was joyous until March 19, 1944, when German SS Troops entered Hungary and began the immediate and mass deportation of Hungary's Jews. After escaping a slave labor camp, her father hid in a safe house established by Raoul Wallenberg, the famed Swedish diplomat who saved as many as 100,000 Hungarian Jews. What Do I Believe? ALL MATERIAL: COPYRIGHT CALIFORNIA EUROPEAN CULTURAL INITIATIVE/MEMORY PROJECT On September 10, 2011, the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA officially opened the Tom and Annette Lantos Center for Compassion, located at 1450 Rollins Road in Burlingame, California. Lantos was criticized by some (including fellow Congressman Joe Scarborough) for this comment. other very serious criminal conduct."[60][61]. The late chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, who died Feb. 11 of esophageal cancer at the age of 80, was the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress. [31] Yet Representative Tom Lantos has been caught doing exactly that. He served 14 terms, from 1981-2008, in the United States House of Representatives as Congressman for the California district encompassing . His daughter, Annette, said in her eulogy that her father was a man of profound faith and listed his beliefs: in the U.S. Constitution, in education, in friendship, in the responsibility to change the world for the better, even in the power of dogs to heal but notably, belief in a deity was lacking. His behavior warrants a searching inquiry by the House Ethics Committee."[32]. He was buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. On June 19, 2008, President George W. Bush posthumously awarded Lantos the Medal of Freedom. [2][3] A Hungarian Jew, Lantos was the only Holocaust survivor to have served in the United States Congress; he survived the genocide with help from Raoul Wallenberg. On October 4, 2002, Lantos led a narrow majority of Democrats on the House International Relations Committee to a successful vote in support of the Resolution for the Use of Force, seeking the approval of the United Nations and under the condition that President George W. Bush would allow UN weapons inspectors to finish their work and that Bush would need to return to Congress for an actual declaration of war before invading Iraq. Now, aren't you dreadfully sorry you asked to catch up! Mother Annette Lantos eventually joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [2] [3] [4] She is also an American educator and the former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2012 to 2013, and then in 2014 to 2015. Episode 2 captures the incredible journey of faith of Holocaust Survivor Annette Tillemann Lantos. Swett charted an aggressive course on the issues, calling out oppressive governments and even joining with six other commissioners who each offered to take 100 of the 1,000 lashes the Saudi Arabian government sentenced to a liberal blogger. Copyright 2023 Yale University. Schneier said that in Lantos final days, he and his wife joined Annette and Lantos in their Washington apartment, reciting the psalms together, and singing the Shma Israel, the Jewish invocation of Gods oneness that gains special meaning when it is said close to death. Speakers included Senator Joe Biden, Bono of U2, Rep. Steny Hoyer, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Rep. Christopher Shays and Elie Wiesel.[46]. I do believe in different forms of life. Annette Lantos received a Portuguese passport, arranged by Wallenberg, and spent the war years in Switzerland. Preceded by: Henry Hyde Succeeded by: Howard Berman Constituency: 11th district (1981-1993) 12th district . He was 80. He had 2 children Katrina Swett, Annette Tillemann-Dick. [citation needed], In June 2007, Lantos called former German Chancellor Gerhard Schrder a "political prostitute" at the dedication ceremony of the Victims of Communism Memorial, which caused a political backlash from the German government. Some conservative observers might dismiss Swetts Trump criticism, since shes a Democrat, but Swett has crafted a reputation as a forceful and fiercely independent advocate for human rightsand specifically international religious freedom. Swett was at times the lone Democrat voting with four Republicans on the nine-member commission. The event was held at the Great Synagogue in Budapest,[12] today the largest synagogue in Europe. Annette is the distinguished founder of the International Free Wallenberg Committee, established in 1977 to raise awareness of Raoul Wallenberg's incredible humanitarian mission in Hungary during the Second World War. Ideas That Animate My Religious Life. Annette Lantos noted during the memorial ceremony that differences of faith with her husband informed even his final days, in the finality of death Lantos embraced and the eternal life that her church preaches. Previously city included Denver CO. Her family had managed to escape to Switzerland, using Swedish passports issued by Raoul Wallenberg. Sunstone is a forum for examining and expressing the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic aspects of history and contemporary life across the Mormon movement. Speakers included Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general; Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust memorialist and Nobel laureate; and Bono, the rock star and Africa advocate who led the mourning in singing All You Need is Love as a Valentines Day paean to the Lantos marriage. After skipping high school, she earned a political science degree from Yale University at age 18, graduated from law school 2 years later, and landed on the staff of then-Sen. Joe Biden at age 21. Yet he was a politician who wore his Jewish experience on his sleeve. His life in Hungary would change after the "Third Reich" annexing of Austria in 1938, with the Austrian border just 100 miles (160km) from Budapest. Our efforts in Iraq are a mess, and throwing in more troops will not improve it."[34]. In 2007, in his effort to help the people of China and Tibet, he presented the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal. [30], "Nurse Nayirah" later turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. On January 2, 2008, after having been diagnosed with esophageal cancer, Lantos announced he would not run for a 15th term in the House, but planned to complete his final term, and thanked Congress: It is only in the United States that a penniless survivor of the Holocaust and a fighter in the anti-Nazi underground could have received an education, raised a family, and had the privilege of serving the last three decades of his life as a Member of Congress. She served as the unpaid Executive Director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which Congressman Lantos co-founded. Turning a painful past into a passion for human rights: The story of Annette Tilleman Lantos. The family had sought refuge in Switzerland, but the Swiss had expelled them. [57], In October 2007, Dutch parliament members said Lantos insulted them while discussing the War on Terror by stating that the Netherlands had to help the United States because it liberated them in World War II, while adding that "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay. His occupation was Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. J.C.D. Four years later, Tom Lantos became the first and only Holocaust survivor to win a seat in Congress. Instead, the younger Annette suggested, he admired his wifes beliefs but did not embrace them: He had faith in the sustaining power of her faith in spirituality, she said. What a journey it has been from the valley of dry bones to the heights of human achievement., A number of Jews in public life are intermarried, but Lantos wife had not merely converted, she had embraced a faith the Church of Latter Day Saints that until the 1970s had preached the inferiority of blacks and until the 1990s had conducted posthumous baptisms of Jews, including Holocaust victims. Lantos was born in Budapest, Hungary. She has spearheaded numerous efforts to help . Six years later, in March 1944, the German military invaded Hungary and occupied Budapest, its capital. I eloped with the Godspell productionmanager, Timber Dick, in March of 1978. In 2011, the Tom Lantos Institute was set up in Budapest to promote tolerance and support minority issues in Central Europe and Eastern Europe, as well as around the world. He continued his post-graduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in economics in 1953. The resolution later passed the House and the Senate with a total of 373 members of Congress supporting it. He eventually became a senior advisor to various U.S. [52], During a 1996 congressional inquiry into the Filegate scandal, Lantos told witness Craig Livingstone that "with an infinitely more distinguished public record than yours, Admiral Boorda committed suicide when he may have committed a minor mistake". She noted that Lantos likened his life to a vacation at his beloved Lake Balaton in Hungary. [9], Lantos joined Wallenberg's network; his fair hair and blue eyes, which to the Nazis were physical signs of "Aryanism", enabled him to serve as a courier and deliver food and medicine to Jews living in other safe houses. We encourage humanitarian service, honest inquiry, and responsible interchange of ideas that is respectful of all people and what they hold sacred. On the night in January 2007 that Bush announced his plan, Lantos responded, "I oppose the so-called surge that constitutes the centerpiece of the President's plan. Did the Administration learn nothing from our country's actions in Afghanistan two decades ago, when by supporting Islamist militants against the Soviet Union, we helped pave the way for the rise of the Taliban? But here is a brief (wellit is not so briefyou may wish to drasticallyedit it!) Annette Tillemann's childhood was joyous until March 19, 1944, when German SS Troops entered Hungary and began the immediate and mass deportation of Hungary's Jews. 2008. janur 2-n bejelentette, hogy nyelcsrkja miatt az v . We examine and express the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic qualities of Mormon history and contemporary life. HARROWING FAMILY HISTORYcultivated Swetts passion for human rights. On the C-SPAN Networks: Annette Lantos is a Spouse with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1995 Ceremony.The year with the highest average number . All rights reserved. Swett flashed one of her frequent smiles and said she has her father looking down on me from every corner of my office. "Many of them like my family were deeply patriotic and included military officers, university professors, writers and they were enormously proud of . After Hungary was liberated, she and her family returned to Budapest, where she and Lantos met again. After the war, The New York Times wrote, "It's plainly wrong for a member of congress to collaborate with a public relations firm to produce knowingly deceptive testimony on an important issue. Annette Lantos, who was rescued by Wallenberg, started campaigning in USA to urge Soviet Union to justify the latter's disappearance. Sometimes, she said, Democrats hear religious freedom and they transpose it into this domestic context where they may feel that religious freedom claims conflict with what they view as robust protection of civil rights for everybody in our society.. She voted her conscience all the time., Principled stands dont come without risk: As a political appointee, Swett could be less likely to receive a future appointment. Rhetoric is always easier than policy, Swett said. Democrat member of the US House of Representatives from California; term of service: 3 January 1981 - 11 February 2008 (died in office). I truly appreciate your constancy andremember with gratitude your band's vital contribution to our production ofGOdspell so many years ago. During the Obama presidency, Republicans more often championed traditional human rights, while many Democrats seemed to pull back from them. Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation, later called it the height of irony that the ban would block one of ISIS most effective and ardent foes. Dakhil eventually received a waiver to attend the eventa process the administration created to address situations like hersbut Swett urged event attendees to consider what an America First policy could mean for human rights. Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos (February 1, 1928 - February 11, 2008) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from California, serving from 1981 until his death as the representative from a district that included the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of southwestern San Francisco.Lantos had announced in early January 2008 that he would not run for . Personal details about Annette include: political affiliation is unknown; ethnicity is Caucasian; and religious . Our guest on this episode of The Keeper is . Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers, SC-048. This article will clarify Tom Lantos's In4fp, Net Worth . They were able to survive thanks to the network of safehouses operated by the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. As a result of his fluent English,[citation needed] he wrote an essay about Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was awarded a scholarship by the Hillel Foundation to study in the United States. 1944-2008, 199.35 linear feet. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [54], On May 3, 2000, Lantos was involved in an automobile accident while driving on Capitol Hill. Dulcia, an artist,athlete and all round great woman,lives near my mother, Annette Lantos, andhelps with her work to carry on my father's legacy as an internationaladvocate for Human Rights. [29], Lantos was a strong supporter of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. She served as the unpaid Executive Director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which Congressman Lantos co-founded. The hall, packed with most of the lawmakers who make up the informal congressional Jewish caucus and their staffs, was rapt. After a few years, they were able to purchase a modest home in San Bruno, and later they bought a home in Millbrae, where their two daughters attended public schools and where Tom served for several . Dakhils advocacy for fellow Yazidis had made her ISIS most wanted woman, but her nationality almost kept her from attending the event in her honor: As an Iraqi national, she was barred from entering the United States under President Donald Trumps recently issued travel ban. Class of 1978 Denomination: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints To say I am chagrined that it has been so many.many years since I have communicated with the faithful class secretaries would be an understatement. Tom Lantos was born on February 1, 1928 (age 80) in Hungary. There, he hid with an aunt in a safe house set up by Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat. [59] On August 8, 2009, she gave sworn testimony about Lantos and others during a witness deposition before the Ohio Elections Commission in the Schmidt v. Krikorian case, in which she alleged that he had engaged in "[N]ot only bribe[ry], but also disclosing highest level protected U.S. intelligence and weapons technology information both to Israel and to Turkey. This produced tangible results: Katrina and her sister Annette took it upon themselves to rebuild the family and had a combined 17 children. Date: 19 June 2008, 09:57:20: Over fifty years ago the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about the fierce urgency of now as he sought to make America at long last live up to the promises of our founding. She also served on the United States Commission on International . Zen, our youngest, is a relatively normal 17 year old boyand skateboards daily to Regis U where he is a sophomore majoring inPhilosophy, Economics and Biology. She recalled Lantoss last visit to Israel last year, where they toured military installations along the northern border and heard pleas from military commanders to keep Israel safe. Durant ces dbats, les diverses tendances du freudisme, prsentes dans la Socit britannique de psychanalyse, se sont durement opposes, sur le plan thorique et . The couple reconnected after the war, married in 1950, and settled in California. Gbor testvre, Tilleman Szebasztian lnya, az 1931-ben szletett Tilleman Anett nagynnje, aki Budapesten szletett, eredeti nevn Lantos Pter Tamshoz, Tom Lantos ksbbi amerikai kpviselhz ment felesgl. To say I am chagrined that it has been so many.many years since I havecommunicated with the faithful class secretaries would be an understatement. She said the Obama administration often took the right positions, but then didnt back them up with policies. Those same skies that did not hear the roar of the fighters planes in time were hearing them now, she said. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988. Lantos was an immediate and consistent critic of the troop surge advocated by President Bush. Your complete guide to Annette Lantos; including news, articles, pictures, and videos. As a young adult, Swett also became a Mormon and went on to raise her seven children in both religious traditions. She was an actress, known for Mai lnyok (1937), Tokaji rapszdia (1937) and The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950). Read More. "[45], A memorial service was held for Lantos on February 14, 2008, at Statuary Hall in the Capitol. He was 80. [15] [16] Annette (formerly Agnes) Lantos is a niece of Jolie Gabor, whose brother Sebastian was Mrs. Lantos's father, making Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva Gabor, Jolie's daughters, first cousins to Annette Lantos. It's on the race to electrify cars that has been ragingamongst the US,Japan and China. 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