of 2 NEXT "[47], In 2008, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which he founded in 1983, was renamed The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. [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. Yet he was a politician who wore his Jewish experience on his sleeve. Latest news and commentary on Annette Lantos including photos, videos, quotations, and a biography. [citation needed]. [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. The facility was funded with a naming gift in the Lantos's honor by Oracle founder, Larry Ellison, and his wife, Melanie. [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. Lantos remembered this period and a newspaper headline he read when he was ten years old, "Hitler Marches into Austria". He died before finishing his term. Mini Bio (1) Magda Gabor was born on June 11, 1914 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. 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. At Wallenberg's prompting, similar protective passports were issued by the Swiss and Spanish governments and the Vatican. Tom and Annette have two daughters - Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett and Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick - and 18 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. You won't have any problem with Saddam. Tom Lantos was born on February 1, 1928 (age 80) in Hungary. His the best movie is The Last Days. "[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. 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. The politician Tom Lantos died at the age of 80. The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice was founded later that year to carry out that wish. 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. 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. 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. 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. I sensed that this historic moment would have a tremendous impact on the lives of Hungarian Jews, my family, and myself. Forgive me. She moved from her home in Colorado to Baltimore to be treated at Johns Hopkins University, where she also studied at the Peabody Conservatory. Warm and loving wishes to allplease visit usin Denver when you are in town. 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. He was 80. 1944-2008, 199.35 linear feet. L'ouvrage Les Controverses Anna Freud-Melanie Klein (1941-1945) porte sur les dbats scientifiques qui se sont drouls au sein du mouvement psychanalytique britannique. We examine and express the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic qualities of Mormon history and contemporary life. Even at a young age, he understood the significance of this invasion:[9]. [54], On May 3, 2000, Lantos was involved in an automobile accident while driving on Capitol Hill. 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. He again escaped, this time making his way back to Budapest, 40 miles (64km) away. Her mothers Holocaust-era ID card sits on a shelf. But like all vacations, she said, using his words, there must be an end to it. 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. ANNETTE LANTOS BIO TOM LANTOS LIFE STORY - AS TOLD BY ANNETTE LANTOS. The hall, packed with most of the lawmakers who make up the informal congressional Jewish caucus and their staffs, was rapt. Durant ces dbats, les diverses tendances du freudisme, prsentes dans la Socit britannique de psychanalyse, se sont durement opposes, sur le plan thorique et . [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 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. Personal details about Annette include: political affiliation is unknown; ethnicity is Caucasian; and religious . 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. In January 2006, he traveled to Hungary and attended a ceremony commemorating the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest Ghetto. [27] In more recent times, he supported democracy in Burma and pressed for sanctions on Iran for supporting terrorism. Katrina Lantos Swett, 60, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the mother of seven children. 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. Senators, and in 1980, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, where he remained until his death in February 2008. 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. She has spearheaded numerous efforts to help human rights victims, including those persecuted for religious and political reasons, and to further human rights causes. 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. magyar zsid szrmazs amerikai demokrata prti politikus, 1981-tl hallig az amerikai kpviselhz tagja, ahol Kalifornia 12. szm vlasztkerlett kpviselte, a hz egyedli holokauszt-tlljeknt. Lantos was criticized by some (including fellow Congressman Joe Scarborough) for this comment. 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. Her family had managed to escape to Switzerland, using Swedish passports issued by Raoul Wallenberg. [27] He declared Turkey's mass killings of Armenians during World War I to be genocide. During the Obama presidency, Republicans more often championed traditional human rights, while many Democrats seemed to pull back from them. The couple reconnected after the war, married in 1950, and settled in California. [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. 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. Lantos, a Democrat, was first elected in 1981 . 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. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988. She served as the unpaid Executive Director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which Congressman Lantos co-founded. 65 Comments Post navigation 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. Katrina Lantos Swett's sister, Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick, graduated from Yale in 1978 and is the mother of six Yale grads ("A modern-day record," Biden claimed at that 2015 class day). 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. 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. In subsequent years, he worked as a business consultant and television commentator on subjects of foreign policy. Representatives, along with six other activists, took part in a civil disobedience action in front of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C. Annette Lantos's birthday is 06/27/1931 and is 90 years old. [28], On other aspects of American foreign policy, Lantos spoke out against waste, fraud and abuse in the multi-billion dollar U.S. reconstruction program in Iraq, and warned that the U.S. could lose Afghanistan to the Taliban if the Bush administration failed to take decisive action to halt the current decline in political stability there. 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. She said the Iraq War and the rise of LGBT activism have caused some to back away from global human rights issuesespecially religious freedom. I don't buy it. [44] Shortly after his death, Roy Blunt, the House Republican Whip, stated that "Chairman Lantos will be remembered as a man of uncommon integrity and sincere moral conviction and a public servant who never wavered in his pursuit of a better, freer and more religiously tolerant world. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom (2018-2021) & Coc-Chair of the IRF Summit, Lantos Foundation, 6 Dixon Ave, Suite 100, Concord, NH 03301. 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. [48] Lantos's daughter, Katrina Lantos Swett, serves as the Foundation's president and CEO. 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. Among his other efforts was a demand that Japan apologize for sex slavery during World War II. February 11, 2008 / 9:46 AM / AP. [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. In 2007, he backed Morocco's proposal to make the region autonomous under Moroccan rule, saying: "I urge the leadership of the Polisario to realize that they will never again get such a good deal for the population they purport to represent."[43]. 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. She said the Obama administration often took the right positions, but then didnt back them up with policies. Previously, Annette was a Board of Adv isors Member at Airline Ambassadors International and also held positions at Falun Gong, Years. Melanie Klein et Anna Freud. 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. 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. His daughter Annette was married to Timber . She read Bible stories to her daughters but showed deference to her husband's wishes. 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. Learn more about Annette Lantos - movies and shows, full bio, photos, videos, and more at TV Guide As he was Jewish, Lantos, then 16, was arrested and sent to a forced labor camp outside of Budapest. I have no basis for assuming that her story is not true, but the point goes beyond that. Speaker: Annette Tilleman Lantos January 1, 1997 What Do I Believe? [13], In 1946, Lantos enrolled at the University of Budapest. Tzipi Livni, Israels foreign minister, also delivered a eulogy. She later raised the matter with President Jimmy Carter. Swett attributes her double education at home and school for rapidly preparing her for college. 20 Annette Lantos pictures. Read more : https://world.wng.org/2017/04/her_father_s_daughter, Tagged: Katrina Lantos Swett, Religious Freedom, Holocaust, Interview, Lantos Foundation Statement - Russia Jehovah's Witness Ruling, Lantos Foundation Chair Calls on Hungary to Defend Academic Freedom, Lantos Foundation, 6 Dixon Ave, Suite 100, Concord, NH 03301. Annette Lantos is the author of A Quiet Courage (3.22 avg rating, 9 ratings, 3 reviews, published 1997) 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 . [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. Yvonne Katrina Swett (ne Lantos; born October 8, 1955) is the President of the Lantos Foundation. and, much moreimportantly, with a great wife, has produced four adorable grand children. Mother Annette Lantos eventually joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Search instead in Creative? They were able to survive thanks to the network of safehouses operated by the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. 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). His spouse is Annette Tillemann ( m. 1950) . 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. 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. Agnes Ethel Lantos became a naturalized United States citizen on May 17, 1954, under that name. Dick is alive, she says, because Andrew Rosenberg had a fire extinguisher in his vehicle when he and Scott Boylan stopped to help Dick. Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers, SC-048. We encourage humanitarian service, honest inquiry, and responsible interchange of ideas that is respectful of all people and what they hold sacred. 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. 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. I;m sorry this is asconcise as I could be at this time of night/day. 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. 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. 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. ALL MATERIAL: COPYRIGHT CALIFORNIA EUROPEAN CULTURAL INITIATIVE/MEMORY PROJECT His behavior warrants a searching inquiry by the House Ethics Committee."[32]. Why didnt his obituaries say so? "Many of them like my family were deeply patriotic and included military officers, university professors, writers and they were enormously proud of . The Lantoses' daughter Annette was married to Timber Dick, an independent businessman in Colorado,[18] until his accidental death in 2008. She also spoke directly with President Jimmy Carter about Wallenberg's case. 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. 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. 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. During his childhood, he met his future wife, Annette Tillemann (or Tilleman; born June 27, 1931), then using the name Agnes Ethel Seymour. 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. 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