Sunstone is a magazine published by the Sunstone Education Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, that discusses Mormonism through scholarship, art, short fiction, and poetry. Lantos, who served as Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in his last term, announced in early January 2008 that he would not run for re-election because of cancer of the esophagus. 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. I;m sorry this is asconcise as I could be at this time of night/day. Papers: ca. 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. 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. The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice was founded later that year to carry out that wish. Timeline 1981 Democrat member of the US House of Representatives from California; term of service: 3 January 1981 - 11 February 2008 (died in office). Her late husband Tom Lantos (February 1, 1928 - February 11, 2008) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until his death and a powerful champion of human rights around the world. Like Lantos widow, Schneier also quoted the late congressman as invoking the finality of death: He has a message for all of us, he said. He was 80. In den folgenden Jahren war sie bevorzugt in diversen Fernsehkrimis wie Polizeiruf 110, Tatort, oder Die Kommissarin zu sehen, spielte aber auch in den Kinofilmen Wie Feuer und . A short while earlier, they had fled from Hungary where Jews were 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. It absolutely transcends party lines.. His long-standing efforts to protect open space brought thousands of acres under the protection of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, including Mori Point, Sweeney Ridge, and Rancho Corral de Tierra, which will keep its watersheds and delicate habitats free from development permanently. "U.S. Policy Challenges in North Africa", "Lantos endorses Speier as 'our best candidate', "Rep. 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Atop a bookcase sit separate photos of her father shaking hands with Bill Clinton and Barack Obamanear a photo of her smiling parents with Condoleezza Rice. That first production number was followed by many moreeleven living babesin all, stillborn twins and a beautiful adopted teenager from Honduras. 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 . Swett spent the Obama years often urging the administration to be more active and challenging congressional Democrats to do the same. I did not have a different vision from Katrina, and she didnt have a different vision from me. She is now chairwoman of the . 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. John BroderickFormer Chief Justice, NH Supreme Court, Dr. Kay Atkinson KingFormer Director, Office of Inter Parliamentary AffairsUS House of Representatives, Ambassador Nancy G. BrinkerFormer U.S. 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. Lantos defeated Royer by 5,700 votes. Previously, Annette was a Board of Adv isors Member at Airline Ambassadors International and also held positions at Falun Gong, Years. In 2011, the institute was set up in Budapest to promote tolerance and support minority issues in central and eastern Europe and in the world.[7]. Previously city included Denver CO. Lantos served as the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. "The train is now on its way", said Lantos after the resolution successfully passed both houses of Congress. Dr. Lantos Swett also serves on the Advisory Board of UN Watch, the annual Anne Frank Award and Lecture, and The Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Policy. He died before finishing his term. To ensure the integrity of the historical record and to provide a way for our community to learn from the past, we will not remove problematic content or presenters from our archives. [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. View Annette Lantos's record in Washington, DC including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. "[27], Lantos died of complications from esophageal cancer on February 11, 2008, before finishing his term. You can look her up on theinterneteither by checking out some of her TED talks or just Google "Operasinger-lung transplants". The story of Congressman Tom Lantos as told by his wife, Mrs. Annette Lantos. She is also the daughter of the late California Congressman Tom Lantos, a Hungarian native, who was the only Holocaust survivor to be elected to the US Congress. 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. 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. By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA.org. During hearings of the House International Relations Committee, where he was then the ranking member, Lantos repeatedly praised the investigative work of the office of the Special Inspector of Iraq Reconstruction General Stuart Bowen, which uncovered evidence of waste, fraud and abuse in the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars intended to help secure and rebuild Iraq. 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. 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. He again escaped, this time making his way back to Budapest, 40 miles (64km) away. He never again faced such a close contest, and was re-elected 13 times. 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 . Mother Annette Lantos eventually joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations, had taken his own life after his right to wear Combat V decorations had been questioned. 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. [55], In 2002, Lantos, who was on the House Committee on International Affairs, took Colette Avital, a Labor Party member of the Israeli Knesset, by the hand and, according to Haaretz, tried to reassure her with these words: "My dear Colette, don't worry. Nine months later, with two dogsalong for the ride, we had our first baby,a boy,in the car on the way toYale, New Haven Hospital. ANNETTE LANTOS BIO TOM LANTOS LIFE STORY - AS TOLD BY ANNETTE LANTOS. [35], On April 28, 2006, Lantos and four other Democratic U.S. Swett was at times the lone Democrat voting with four Republicans on the nine-member commission. Senators, and in 1980, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, where he remained until his death in February 2008. . More information on Tom Lantos can be found here. Annette Lantos is a niece of Jolie Gabor, whose brother Sebastian was Mrs. Lantos' father, making actresses Zsa Zsa, Magda and Eva Gabor, Jolie's daughters, all originally from Budapest, Annette Lantos's cousins. "[5] U2 lead singer Bono called him a "prizefighter", whose stamina would make him go "any amount of rounds, with anyone, anywhere, to protect human rights and common decency". Starting in early 2006, Lantos distanced himself from the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, making critical statements at hearings, on the House floor and in published media interviews about the conduct of the war. Melanie Klein et Anna Freud. She said the Obama administration often took the right positions, but then didnt back them up with policies. Thomas Peter Lantos (born Tams Pter Lantos; February 1, 1928 February 11, 2008)[1] was a Holocaust survivor and American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1981 until his death in 2008. He was 80. Speaker: Annette Tilleman Lantos January 1, 1997 What Do I Believe? "The bulk of the Jews of Budapest were utterly assimilated," Lantos said. In 1988, Nicholas W. Kudrovzeff, American Independent Party, received 1,893 votes (1%). Sie wurde vor allem durch ihre Rolle der Lisa in der im Jahr 2000 erschienenen Teenager-Komdie Harte Jungs bekannt, in der sie neben Tobias Schenke und Axel Stein in einer greren Nebenrolle agierte. [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". Tom didnt believe in God in the way that most of us do, his widow said at the service Feb. 14 in the Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building, where his family including 18 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren were present. In a 2007 letter he asked Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia to distance themselves from the Bene decrees, a reasonable process in the Hedvig Malina case, and to treat members of the Hungarian minority as equal. We all go through that one-way street that leads to the grave, there is no immunity from the grave, we all have to meet our maker sooner or later. of 2 NEXT The question of Lantos faith had long presented a dilemma: Questions of taste and fears of Lantos notorious wrath kept it from being asked aloud while he lived. 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 . He drove over a young boy's foot and then failed to stop his vehicle and was later fined over the incident for inattentive driving. C-SPAN, an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable television network that offers coverage of federal government proceedings and other public affairs programming via its three television channels (C-SPAN, C-SPAN2 and C-SPAN3), one radio station and a group of. I sensed that this historic moment would have a tremendous impact on the lives of Hungarian Jews, my family, and myself. His spouse is Annette Tillemann ( m. 1950) . We also advodate for organ donationforobvious reasons of abject gratitude. Lantos, first elected to Congress in 1980 as a Democratic lawmaker from California, was remembered as a champion of human rights, from his work on the 1980s on behalf of Soviet Jewry, to recent times, defending the rights of civilians in Darfur and free speech advocates in China and promoting access to HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa. She has also been instrumental in fighting for animal rights and assisted her husband in co-founding the Congressional Friends of Animals Caucus. Annette Lantos. 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. At Wallenberg's prompting, similar protective passports were issued by the Swiss and Spanish governments and the Vatican. During the Obama presidency, Republicans more often championed traditional human rights, while many Democrats seemed to pull back from them. Is it any wonder that on the subject of Iraq, more and more Americans have little confidence in this Administration? Following her fathers 2008 death, Swett, her mother, and her sister launched the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice to continue advancing causes around the globe. She also spoke directly with President Jimmy Carter about Wallenberg's case. [6], In 2008, after his death, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which he founded in 1983, was re-named the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. 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. Annette Lantos is a Chairman of The Lantos Foundation at Lantos Foundation based in Concord, New Hampshire. Representatives, along with six other activists, took part in a civil disobedience action in front of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C. 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. We like to think we punch above our weight, Swett said before taking me on a tour of her orderly office. [21], Lantos made his first run for office in 1980, challenging Republican Congressman Bill Royer, who had won a 1979 special election after Democrat Leo Ryan was killed in the Jonestown massacre. Her independence at times ran afoul of other Democratic-appointed commissioners who wanted to mitigate criticism of the Obama administration and move USCIRF from nonpartisan to bipartisanincluding Republican and Democratic staffs. Ideas That Animate My Religious Life What Do I Believe? 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. The question of Lantos' faith had long presented a dilemma: Questions of taste and fears of Lantos' notorious wrath kept it from being asked aloud while he lived. [19][20], Lantos's younger daughter, Katrina, is married to ambassador and former U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, Richard Swett, and was herself a candidate for Congress in New Hampshire. She read Bible stories to her daughters but showed deference to her husband's wishes. 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. Due to the pandemic, this Memory Project interview was conducted via Zoom, with Annette Lantos (now 90) and her daughter Katrina in Concord, NH, Andrea Lauer Rice in Atlanta, GA, and Rka Pigniczky in Budapest, Hungary. [27] He declared Turkey's mass killings of Armenians during World War I to be genocide. J.C.D. In 2007, in his effort to help the people of China and Tibet, he presented the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal. 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. Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers, SC-048. That just leaves our third son, Corban, who hasadded to our United Nations kind of family with a brilliant, beautiful wifeborn and raised in South Korea. Annette Lantos helped run his congressional office and led the Congressional Human Rights Caucus he co-founded. After the war, she was reunited with her childhood sweetheart, Tom Lantos, who later, in 1981, became the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress (1981 - 2008, D-California). A special election was held to fill his seat on April 8, 2008, and was won by former State Senator Jackie Speier, whom Lantos had endorsed. All rights reserved. [14], After graduation from Berkeley, Lantos became a professor of economics at San Francisco State University. As he was Jewish, Lantos, then 16, was arrested and sent to a forced labor camp outside of Budapest. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Order Transcripts and Replacement Diploma, Office of International Students and Scholars, Application Instructions and Requirements, Accreditation and Educational Effectiveness, Libraries, Collections, and Other University Sources. The resolution later passed the House and the Senate with a total of 373 members of Congress supporting it. Democrat member of the US House of Representatives from California; term of service: 3 January 1981 - 11 February 2008 (died in office). Rhetoric is always easier than policy, Swett said. Some observers cite a reluctance to criticize ones own president as the prime cause for the shift, but Swett sees issues that wont be solved with a Republican in the White House. [50], Lantos received the Grand Cross, Hungary's highest civilian honor. Richard Belzer was a Jewish comedian. Swett argues the hesitancy on international issues is unnecessary: Democrats and Republicans can and should agree on, among other things, the danger of blasphemy laws and the economic and security benefits of promoting freedom of speech, religion, and conscience. 2023 jewish telegraphic agency all rights reserved. As a young adult, Swett also became a Mormon and went on to raise her seven children in both religious traditions. Lantos was an immediate and consistent critic of the troop surge advocated by President Bush. Showing Editorial results for annette lantos. She moved from her home in Colorado to Baltimore to be treated at Johns Hopkins University, where she also studied at the Peabody Conservatory. BOARD OF TRUSTEESJohn Paul Schnapper-CasterasChairmanAnnette LantosChair Emeritus, Evelyn SzelenyiSecretaryTomicah Tillemann, Dr. Katrina Lantos SwettPresident, Ex-officio Non-voting Member, Ambassador John ShattuckPresident Emeritus of Central European University, BonoMusician/Activist, Co-founder of ONE and (RED), Richard GereFounder and President, The Gere Foundation, Hon. She named Reps. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as consistent advocates, but said, It pains me that in some instances leaders in my party are not leading the charge any longer on human rights.. The Lantoses' daughter Annette was married to Timber Dick, an independent businessman in Colorado,[18] until his accidental death in 2008. Lantos earned a reputation as a champion for various human rights causes, such as having Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang testify at a congressional hearing, when the company turned over the email records of two Chinese dissidents to the Chinese government, allowing them to be traced and one sentenced to jail. The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice was founded later that year to carry out that wish. She noted that Lantos likened his life to a vacation at his beloved Lake Balaton in Hungary. Igor and Irina Ratushinskaia, Tom Lantos, Kent Hill, and Annette Lantos, undated, Item 842, Box: 191. Forgetting about our music lessons, forgetting about our ballgames, he continued. The next three are students at Yale,though currently Mercina has stopped out to serve a full-time mission for ourchurch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Her father was a great man, said Elliott Abrams, a former Reagan administration official who frequently worked with Lantos on human rights issues. 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. He is the only survivor of the Nazis' Holocaust to serve in the US Congress. I do not believe in death. Lantos, a Democrat, was first elected in 1981 . Posted in Hungarian politics, Hungary and tagged Annette Lantos, anti-Semitism in Hungary, Fidesz, House of Fates, Hungarian constitution, Hungarian Guard, Imre Kertsz, Istvn Csurka, Mria Vsrhelyi, Mikls Vsrhelyi, Tom Lantos, Tom Lantos Institute, Viktor Orbn on February 2, 2014 by Eva S. Balogh. Mini Bio (1) Magda Gabor was born on June 11, 1914 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was the very opposite of a partisan or an ideologue, said conservative Princeton University professor Robert P. George, who served as the USCIRF chairman in alternating years with Swett. Your complete guide to Annette Lantos; including news, articles, pictures, and videos. [29], Lantos was a strong supporter of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Tom Lantos, the lone Holocaust survivor to serve in America's Congress, died Monday morning after a battle with cancer of the esophagus. Historical records matching Annette Lantos Annette Tilleman in Biographical Summaries of Notable People view all Immediate Family Congressman Thomas Peter Lantos husband Private child Private child Mary Szazs mother Sebastian Tillemann father view all Annette Lantos's Timeline Katrina Lantos Swett, 60, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the mother of seven children. Afterward, they saw a film about the American failure to bomb Auschwitz. He served 14 terms, from 1981-2008, in the United States House of Representatives as Congressman for the California district encompassing . Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988. During the run-up to the war, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, of which Lantos was co-chairman, hosted a young Kuwaiti woman identified only as "Nurse Nayirah", who told of horrific abuses by Iraqi soldiers, including the killing of Kuwaiti babies by taking them out of their incubators and leaving them to die on the cold floor of the hospital. 11:00 to 5:00, Monday-Friday, Sunstone Harassment Policy and Code of Conduct, What Do I Believe? They were protesting the role of the Sudanese government in carrying out genocide in the Darfur conflict and were arrested for disorderly conduct. His daughter Katrina closed her remarks with a reading on eternal life from the final pages of the Chronicles of Narnia, the Christian allegory by C.S. [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 friend, Rabbi Arthur Schneier of New York, recalled singing Hebrew psalms with Lantos days before he died. 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. 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