Only 13 at the time, she knew that she and her mother needed to immediately leave their home and go into hiding. The entire memorial service was a gentle back and forth of Jewish and Mormon perspectives on remembering Lantos, who was cremated. 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. [13], In 1946, Lantos enrolled at the University of Budapest. 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. 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. 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 other very serious criminal conduct."[60][61]. 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. 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. "[9], Despite being fluent in English, Lantos never lost his Hungarian accent. [51], Project Vote Smart provides the following results from congressional scorecards. The investigators concluded that there were no deaths resulting from stolen equipment. Their first home was a tiny apartment in San Francisco. 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. But the fact remains, gentlemen, that the Administration has sent you here today to convince the members of these two Committees and the Congress that victory is at hand. Sometimes Annette goes by various nicknames including Annette T Lantos, Annette P Lantos, Annette M Lantos and Annette Tillemanlantos. 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. In January 2006, he traveled to Hungary and attended a ceremony commemorating the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest Ghetto. 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. 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]. 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. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Vote Smart provides free, unbiased, in-depth information about current officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting. I did not have a different vision from Katrina, and she didnt have a different vision from me. Here is all you want to know, and more! She read Bible stories to her daughters but showed deference to her husbands wishes. They were able to survive thanks to the network of safehouses operated by the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. Annette Lantos helped run his congressional office and led the Congressional Human Rights Caucus he co-founded. 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.. The tide turned after 9/11, when wars in Iraq and Afghanistan created a fear of over-engagement, especially among Democrats. Karriere. English: Mrs. Annette Lantos, wife of the late Mr. Tom Lantos, receives applause in honor her husband who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Thursday, June 19, 2008, in the East Room of the White House. [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. Papers: ca. He served 14 terms, from 1981-2008, in the United States House of Representatives as Congressman for the California district encompassing . Yet he was a politician who wore his Jewish experience on his sleeve. The politician Tom Lantos died at the age of 80. He had become a hunted animal because he was a young Jewish man, Swett said. 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]. She has spearheaded numerous efforts to help human rights victims, including those persecuted for religious and political reasons, and to further human rights causes. On the wall hangs a painted portrait of her father casting an adoring glance at his wife. Among his other efforts was a demand that Japan apologize for sex slavery during World War II. 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. So we were highly reproductive. The event was held at the Great Synagogue in Budapest,[12] today the largest synagogue in Europe. 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. Thomas was born on February 1 1928, in Budapest, Magyarorszg - Hungary. Annette Lantos is the author of A Quiet Courage (3.22 avg rating, 9 ratings, 3 reviews, published 1997) 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. 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. Senators, and in 1980, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, where he remained until his death in February 2008. [22][23], Lantos was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and repeatedly called for reforms to the nation's health-care system, reduction of the national budget deficit and the national debt, repeal of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Did it affect his Judaism? She has spearheaded numerous efforts to help . I do believe in different forms of life. Rhetoric is always easier than policy, Swett said. [27] In 2004, he sponsored a bill to stop the spread of anti-semitism. "[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. 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. Previously city included Denver CO. Swett was at times the lone Democrat voting with four Republicans on the nine-member commission. 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. 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. ADDRESS His death . [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. She added: "Wherever there was injustice or oppression, he used his expertise and moral authority to put the United States on the side of justice and human rights". He continued his post-graduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in economics in 1953. Richard Belzer was a Jewish comedian. Her family had managed to escape to Switzerland, using Swedish passports issued by Raoul Wallenberg. Learn more about Annette Lantos - movies and shows, full bio, photos, videos, and more at TV Guide Menu Log In Sign Up [30], "Nurse Nayirah" later turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. During a joint House hearing on September 10, 2007, featuring General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Lantos said: The Administration's myopic policies in Iraq have created a fiasco. Agnes Ethel Lantos became a naturalized United States citizen on May 17, 1954, under that name. 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. We examine and express the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic qualities of Mormon history and contemporary life. Six years later, in March 1944, the German military invaded Hungary and occupied Budapest, its capital. 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. [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. Salt Lake City, Utah 84103, HELP DESK HOURS What Do I Believe? I presided over that wonderful, memorable celebration and we sang Siman tov umazal tov, a Jewish song of joy, Schneier said of that synagogue visit. 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. Warm and loving wishes to allplease visit usin Denver when you are in town. They included speaking for Christians in Saudi Arabia and Sudan to practice their faith, helping Tibetans to retain their culture and religion in Tibet, and advocating for other minorities worldwide. He is the only survivor of the Nazis' Holocaust to serve in the US Congress. We encourage humanitarian service, honest inquiry, and responsible interchange of ideas that is respectful of all people and what they hold sacred. 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 . Episode 2 captures the incredible journey of faith of Holocaust Survivor Annette Tillemann Lantos. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state's 11th congressional district until 1993, and from then the 12th congressional district, which both included the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of the southwestern part of San Francisco after redistricting. Interview by Andrea Lauer Rice & Rka Pigniczky, Hungarian American Visual History Archive. Katrina Lantos Swett recalls her father as a proud and patriotic Hungarian before his country turned against him. [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. He died before finishing his term. Tom and Annette have two daughters - Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett and Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick - and 18 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He is now the Senior Adviser to the Secretary ofState for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies (whew!) in 1950. [42], Lantos supported Morocco's demand to gain sovereignty over Western Sahara, and criticized the Polisario Front, which demands independence for the disputed region. He supported same-sex marriage rights and marijuana for medical use, was a strong proponent of gun control and adamantly pro-choice. [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. "[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. 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. At Wallenberg's prompting, similar protective passports were issued by the Swiss and Spanish governments and the Vatican. "You were the light of Tom's life," Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said to her. His friend, Rabbi Arthur Schneier of New York, recalled singing Hebrew psalms with Lantos days before he died. Tom Lantos (Lantos Pter Tams, Budapest, 1928. februr 1. In subsequent years, he worked as a business consultant and television commentator on subjects of foreign policy. 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. 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. [31] Yet Representative Tom Lantos has been caught doing exactly that. The death of Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., likely will trigger a congressional reshuffling that will have implications for the entertainment industry. There, he hid with an aunt in a safe house set up by Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat. Ideas That Animate My Religious Life What Do I Believe? 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. Annette Tillemann Lantos Lantos was against U.S. military aid to Egypt as the Egyptian military had failed to stop the flow of money and weapons across the Egyptian border to Hamas in Gaza, and Egypt had not contributed troops to the peacekeeping efforts in Afghanistan and elsewhere. We also advodate for organ donationforobvious reasons of abject gratitude. They had heard that children alone might be given refuge and so with fearful broken hearts, they said goodbye and this child walked with her little suitcase in hand towards the barbed wire of no-mans land. [29], Lantos was a strong supporter of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Our guest on this episode of The Keeper is . As a young adult, Swett also became a Mormon and went on to raise her seven children in both religious traditions. But Swett said she didnt find it difficult: If I felt it was the right thing to do, it never bothered me to ally with Republican colleagues.. The mission of The Sunstone Education Foundation is to sponsor open forums of Mormon thought and experience. 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. 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Ambassador for International Religious Freedom (2018-2021) & Coc-Chair of the IRF Summit, Lantos Foundation, 6 Dixon Ave, Suite 100, Concord, NH 03301. 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. Lantos and his wife Annette had two daughters, Annette and Katrina, and 17 grandchildren. [50], Lantos received the Grand Cross, Hungary's highest civilian honor. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988. 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. 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