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.. 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]. [48] Lantos's daughter, Katrina Lantos Swett, serves as the Foundation's president and CEO. But like all vacations, she said, using his words, there must be an end to it. 2023 jewish telegraphic agency all rights reserved. Karriere. Through its more than 20 years of work, the Congressional Human Rights Caucusof which Lantos was co-chair with Representative Frank Wolfcovered a wide range of human rights issues. What Do I Believe? Rhetoric is always easier than policy, Swett said. We have to move on., And so he did. [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. "[30], The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sent investigators to Kuwait who went through the hospital and counted the incubators and they found that "except for one or two that may have been misplaced" all of the incubators were still in the hospital. He was 80. Representatives, along with six other activists, took part in a civil disobedience action in front of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C. Her mothers Holocaust-era ID card sits on a shelf. (1928-2008) LANTOS, TOM (1928-2008), Democratic congressman from California, the lone Holocaust survivor to serve in the US Congress. 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. "[56] He later denied saying this, but Avital confirmed it, according to Ben Terrall, an adviser to Maad H. Abu-Ghazalah, a Libertarian Party candidate who ran against Lantos that year. J.C.D. 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. Agnes Ethel Lantos became a naturalized United States citizen on May 17, 1954, under that name. Lantos was an immediate and consistent critic of the troop surge advocated by President Bush. After watching his mother and close friends die in the Holocaustat the hands of both Nazis and Hungarian sympathizersLantos became a religious agnostic upon his immigration to the United States. He eventually became a senior advisor to various U.S. Annette M. Tillemann-Dick, M.A.R. We'll be rid of the bastard soon enough. Whats the message? Biography - A Short Wiki. Meanwhile, Tom Lantos joined an underground movement when the Nazis took Hungary. [42], Lantos supported Morocco's demand to gain sovereignty over Western Sahara, and criticized the Polisario Front, which demands independence for the disputed region. 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. 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. 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. Yet he was a politician who wore his Jewish experience on his sleeve. Among his other efforts was a demand that Japan apologize for sex slavery during World War II. 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 . Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations, had taken his own life after his right to wear Combat V decorations had been questioned. The resolution later passed the House and the Senate with a total of 373 members of Congress supporting it. 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. Those experiences permeated the memorial, which began and ended with blessings from Schneier, Lantos longtime friend and fellow survivor, who founded the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, which promotes religious freedoms. 1944-2008, 199.35 linear feet. 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). Yvonne Katrina Swett (ne Lantos; born October 8, 1955) is the President of the Lantos Foundation. Lantos considered himself a secular Jew. Vote Smart provides free, unbiased, in-depth information about current officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting. Dick is alive, she says, because Andrew Rosenberg had a fire extinguisher in his vehicle when he and Scott Boylan stopped to help Dick. His daughter Annette was married to Timber . [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. In 2007, in his effort to help the people of China and Tibet, he presented the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal. Moreover, it is a culture that encourages conversion and does not easily accommodate intermarriage. [24], Lantos was an advocate on behalf of the environment, receiving consistently high ratings from the League of Conservation Voters and other environmental organizations for his legislative record. Annette Lantos helped run his congressional office and led the Congressional Human Rights Caucus he co-founded. (Her husband, former U.S. Rep. Richard Swett, was a Clinton-appointed ambassador to Denmark.) Copyright 2023 Yale University. Miraculously she has emerged, smiling andsinging, from very near death both times. He keeps me flying straight.. I have no basis for assuming that her story is not true, but the point goes beyond that. At least three links on his congressional Web site detailed his biography as the youthful fighter in the Hungarian resistance who discovered after the war that the Nazis had killed most of his family. She has spearheaded numerous efforts to help human rights victims, including those persecuted for religious and political reasons, and to further human rights causes. Previously city included Denver CO. The other child inDenver, Liberty Belle (born on Sept 17, 1987, the bi-centennial of the USConstitution)is a short trip from home and works for Dan Yergin, the PulitzerPrize winning author, while her husband Pramel is doing a residency inradiology at CU Medical Center. After Hungary was liberated, she and her family returned to Budapest, where she and Lantos met again. Mini Bio (1) Magda Gabor was born on June 11, 1914 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was captured and thrown into . [30], "Nurse Nayirah" later turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Dr. Lantos Swett is the former Chair and Vice-Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and teaches Human Rights and American Foreign Policy at Tufts University. [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. [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". [8] His family was heavily involved in education, and included an uncle who was a professor at the University of Budapest and a grandmother who was a high school principal. Personal details about Annette include: political affiliation is unknown; ethnicity is Caucasian; and religious . The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice was founded later that year to carry out that wish. 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. Swett spent the Obama years often urging the administration to be more active and challenging congressional Democrats to do the same. Lantos was born in Budapest, Hungary. In his floor speeches as a congressman, he sometimes referred to himself as one of the few living members of Congress who had fought against fascism. [17], Lantos and his wife had two daughters, Annette Marie and Katrina, and 18 grandchildren, including Levi, an author and energy expert; Tomicah, a former Democratic political speechwriter; and Charity, an opera singer and activist. 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. Salt Lake City, Utah 84103, HELP DESK HOURS CONCORD, N.H., and WASHINGTON, D.C.On a February morning at the U.S. Capitol, lawmakers, ambassadors, and advocates gathered to award the Lantos Human Rights Prize to Vian Dakhil, a young, articulate member of Iraqs parliament whose 2014 cries for help drew the worlds attention to ISIS atrocities. 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. Contact. Turning a painful past into a passion for human rights: The story of Annette Tilleman Lantos. 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. For a lifetime of leadership, for his commitment to liberty, and for his devoted service to his adopted nation, I am proud to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously, to Tom Lantos, and proud that his loving wife Annette will receive the award on behalf of his family. "You were the light of Tom's life," Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said to her. 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. The tide turned after 9/11, when wars in Iraq and Afghanistan created a fear of over-engagement, especially among Democrats. Afterward, they saw a film about the American failure to bomb Auschwitz. in 1950. He escaped, but was soon caught by the Germans and beaten severely, then returned to the labor camp. I think her father would be very proud.. During the Obama presidency, Republicans more often championed traditional human rights, while many Democrats seemed to pull back from them. [9] Wallenberg, for his part, was later credited with saving the lives of thousands of other Hungarian Jews. Sometimes Annette goes by various nicknames including Annette T Lantos, Annette P Lantos, Annette M Lantos and Annette Tillemanlantos. Its mission is partly "to promote, defend, and advocate internationally recognized human rights". 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. account of the 36 years that have elapsed since graduation39since our production of Godspell. 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. The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice was founded later that year to carry out that wish. 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. And the doctor who provided Amnesty International with the number of babies killed dropped from 312 to 72 and then 30, 19 of which died before the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. other very serious criminal conduct."[60][61]. [33] In later hearings on the war, Lantos continued his enthusiastic support. Step into Swetts office in downtown Concord, N.H., and it takes only seconds to see how much the legacies of father and daughter intertwine. 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. He was married to Annette Tillemann. 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. [7], Lantos was born Tams Pter Lantos (Hungarian:[tma petr lnto]) into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Anna, a high school English teacher, and Pl Lantos, a banker. 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 . Mrs. Annette Lantos shares some of her story of that terrible night and how she survived to become one of our countrys great advocates for human rights all around the world.ANNETTE LANTOS BIOTOM LANTOS LIFE STORY - AS TOLD BY ANNETTE LANTOS. It absolutely transcends party lines.. 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. However, Lantos, then 17, returned home only to discover that his mother and other family members had all been murdered by the Germans, along with 440,000 other Hungarian Jews, during the preceding 10 months of their occupation. 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. 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. [35], On April 28, 2006, Lantos and four other Democratic U.S. 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. He again escaped, this time making his way back to Budapest, 40 miles (64km) away. 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. Durant ces dbats, les diverses tendances du freudisme, prsentes dans la Socit britannique de psychanalyse, se sont durement opposes, sur le plan thorique et . Episode 3 : Father Patrick Desbois Oct 24, 2017. 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. If one hypothesizes that the woman's story is fictitious from A to Z, that in no way diminishes the avalanche of human rights violations. ANNETTE LANTOS BIO TOM LANTOS LIFE STORY - AS TOLD BY ANNETTE LANTOS. [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. She also spoke directly with President Jimmy Carter about Wallenberg's case. Simon and Schuster is scheduled to publish the book of oursecond son, Levi. [25][26], While Lantos initially supported the Iraq War, from 2006 onward he distanced himself, making increasingly critical statements about the conduct of the war. [13], In 1946, Lantos enrolled at the University of Budapest. [4] In speaking before the House of Representatives after his death, Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated that Lantos "devoted his public life to shining a bright light on the dark corners of oppression. And in his place we'll install a pro-Western dictator, who will be good for us and for you. Under her leadership, The Lantos Foundation has rapidly become a distinguished and respected voice on key human rights concerns. 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. His occupation was Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. She moved from her home in Colorado to Baltimore to be treated at Johns Hopkins University, where she also studied at the Peabody Conservatory. 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. 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. 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. 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. Please consider supporting Sunstone by making a donation. [5] I do not believe in death. The couple reconnected after the war, married in 1950, and settled in California. 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. 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. 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The next in line to chair the House Foreign Affai Ambassador for International Religious Freedom (2018-2021) & Coc-Chair of the IRF Summit, Lantos Foundation, 6 Dixon Ave, Suite 100, Concord, NH 03301. Lantos remembered this period and a newspaper headline he read when he was ten years old, "Hitler Marches into Austria". As a young adult, Swett also became a Mormon and went on to raise her seven children in both religious traditions. One of the videos viewed at the first annual Lantos Human Rights Prize ceremony. Annette Lantos's birthday is 06/27/1931 and is 90 years old. Annette, the wife of the late Tom Lantos, former US Califo. And the message of Tom: Maximize your stay on earth, and be a blessing.. She read Bible stories to her daughters but showed deference to her husband's wishes. [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. Our second baby, Kimber Rainbow, anotherYalie, has three adorable babies of her own; she, her amazing husband (whohas kept me from all sorts of disasters.financial and otherwise sinceTimber's been gone) and their sweet gang live in Washington DC, from whereshe blogs with her sisters on Fivetdsisters.blogspot.com. We maintain our publications and recordings on this website so that each new generation can explore and interrogate the pasts effect on Mormon communities and cultures. 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. The facility was funded with a naming gift in the Lantos's honor by Oracle founder, Larry Ellison, and his wife, Melanie. The family had sought refuge in Switzerland, but the Swiss had expelled them. "[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". Among his many international battles, Lantos frequently criticized abuses in China, spoke out against Communism, and steadfastly supported Israel. Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers, SC-048. 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. His death . Some international religious freedom advocates credit Swett with saving the commission. "[58], On January 6, 2008, FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds included Lantos's photograph among others featured in the "State Secrets Privilege Gallery" posted on her website, composing images of figures considered to be relevant to her case. 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