Since Timber's death, almost six years ago, oneof our daughters, Charity Sunshine (fourth baby), has undergone twobi-lateral lung transplants. That first production number was followed by many moreeleven living babesin all, stillborn twins and a beautiful adopted teenager from Honduras. Katrina Lantos Swett recalls her father as a proud and patriotic Hungarian before his country turned against him. In January 2006, he traveled to Hungary and attended a ceremony commemorating the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest Ghetto. 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. He had 2 children Katrina Swett, Annette Tillemann-Dick. Lantos and his wife Annette had two daughters, Annette and Katrina, and 17 grandchildren. I will never be able to express fully my profoundly felt gratitude to this great country. and, much moreimportantly, with a great wife, has produced four adorable grand children. 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. [13], In 1946, Lantos enrolled at the University of Budapest. 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. 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 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. We have to move on., And so he did. 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. Latest news and commentary on Annette Lantos including photos, videos, quotations, and a biography. [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. [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. Its mission is partly "to promote, defend and advocate internationally recognized human rights." Whats the message? His wife, Annette Lantos (born Tilleman), was a first cousin, once removed, of actresses Magda Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Eva Gabor. 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. I do believe in different forms of life. FOR MANY YEARSDemocrats took a strong role in advocating for human rightsboth at home and abroad. 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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. 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. 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. Senators, and in 1980, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, where he remained until his death in February 2008. It's on the race to electrify cars that has been ragingamongst the US,Japan and China. Agnes Ethel Lantos became a naturalized United States citizen on May 17, 1954, under that name. 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. Menu Log In Sign Up Lantos was born in Budapest, Hungary. After emigrating to the United States, they married on July 13, 1950. [29], Lantos was a strong supporter of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Annette Lantos's birthday is 06/27/1931 and is 90 years old. [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. [54], On May 3, 2000, Lantos was involved in an automobile accident while driving on Capitol Hill. 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. 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.. Lantos was criticized by some (including fellow Congressman Joe Scarborough) for this comment. But her father and numerous relatives were murdered in the Nazi death camps. 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. 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. [29], As co-founder of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in 1983 and as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Lantos would "stir the consciousness of world leaders and the public alike", according to Representative Nancy Pelosi. 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. I;m sorry this is asconcise as I could be at this time of night/day. He used his powerful voice to stir the consciousness of world leaders and the public alike. And in his place we'll install a pro-Western dictator, who will be good for us and for you. This produced tangible results: Katrina and her sister Annette took it upon themselves to rebuild the family and had a combined 17 children. Biography - A Short Wiki. 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 . 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. He served 14 terms, from 1981-2008, in the United States House of Representatives as Congressman for the California district encompassing . The Lantoses' daughter Annette was married to Timber Dick, an independent businessman in Colorado,[18] until his accidental death in 2008. Tzipi Livni, Israels foreign minister, also delivered a eulogy. So we were highly reproductive. Here is all you want to know, and more! [5] Annette Lantos is the author of A Quiet Courage (3.22 avg rating, 9 ratings, 3 reviews, published 1997) They say the reforms she helped defeat would have rendered the body impotent. [27] He declared Turkey's mass killings of Armenians during World War I to be genocide. White House photo by Shealah Craighead. 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 . 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 . [9] Wallenberg, for his part, was later credited with saving the lives of thousands of other Hungarian Jews. "[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. This could go on and on and could getrather deadly. J.C.D. Episode 3 : Father Patrick Desbois Oct 24, 2017. [30], "Nurse Nayirah" later turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. [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. 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. [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. Six years later, in March 1944, the German military invaded Hungary and occupied Budapest, its capital. [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. Igor and Irina Ratushinskaia, Tom Lantos, Kent Hill, and Annette Lantos, undated, Item 842, Box: 191. Only 13 at the time, she knew that she and her mother needed to immediately leave their home and go into hiding. As a formidable team, Annette and Tom turned their trauma and grief into a passionate, decades-long fight to promote human rights and the rights of minorities around the world. Turning a painful past into a passion for human rights: The story of Annette Tilleman Lantos. [33] In later hearings on the war, Lantos continued his enthusiastic support. 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. He then emigrated to the U.S., and studied economics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he earned a B.A. 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. 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. [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. She served as the unpaid Executive Director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which Congressman Lantos co-founded. White, who once wrote to a friend, "I've written you a long letterbecause I did not have time to write a short one." Former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, who served for 27 years with Lantos, wrote the 1998 legislation that created USCIRF and called Swett one of the best commissioners the body has ever had: Shes a tribute to her dad. Why are we now repeating the short-sighted patterns of the past? 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. [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. 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. She has spearheaded numerous efforts to help human rights victims, including those persecuted for religious and political reasons, and to further human rights causes. The familys political connections have aided the foundations growth, but Swetts persistent work has swiftly turned the organization into a respected human rights institution. Durant ces dbats, les diverses tendances du . 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. Swett spent the Obama years often urging the administration to be more active and challenging congressional Democrats to do the same. All rights reserved. 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. On the domestic front, Democratic Rep. Chuck Schumernow the Senate minority leaderintroduced the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which President Bill Clinton later signed into law. He had become a hunted animal because he was a young Jewish man, Swett said. Our guest on this episode of The Keeper is . Annette, the wife of the late Tom Lantos, former US Califo. Yvonne Katrina Swett (ne Lantos; born October 8, 1955) is the President of the Lantos Foundation. Their first home was a tiny apartment in San Francisco. Annette Lantos. [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. - Bethesda, 2008. februr 11.) After Hungary was liberated, she and her family returned to Budapest, where she and Lantos met again. These alleged atrocities figured prominently in the rhetoric at the time about Iraqi abuses in Kuwait. 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. Annette Lantos, who was rescued by Wallenberg, started campaigning in USA to urge Soviet Union to justify the latter's disappearance. As a young adult, Swett also became a Mormon and went on to raise her seven children in both religious traditions. Annette Lantos, the widow of Rep. Tom Lantos, is a Holocaust survivor who worked with her late husband as the unpaid director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. Episode 2 captures the incredible journey of faith of Holocaust Survivor Annette Tillemann Lantos. All of the kids are wonderful two are living inDenver full time. He supported same-sex marriage rights and marijuana for medical use, was a strong proponent of gun control and adamantly pro-choice. Politician who represented the Democratic Party and served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California from 1981 until 2008 and was the Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations from 2007 until 2008. The Lantoses regularly took their two daughters abroad and, often around the dinner table, instilled a sense of optimism about life and a conviction that one person can make a difference. His occupation was Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. 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. [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. Timeline 1981 Democrat member of the US House of Representatives from California; term of service: 3 January 1981 - 11 February 2008 (died in office). In 2007, in his effort to help the people of China and Tibet, he presented the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal. Rhetoric is always easier than policy, Swett said. He later rediscovered his Jewish identity but was not eager to raise his two daughters in any particular religion.. Moreover, it is a culture that encourages conversion and does not easily accommodate intermarriage. Mini Bio (1) Magda Gabor was born on June 11, 1914 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. Salt Lake City, Utah 84103, HELP DESK HOURS They remained married until his death in 2008. Is it any wonder that on the subject of Iraq, more and more Americans have little confidence in this Administration? He again escaped, this time making his way back to Budapest, 40 miles (64km) away. Our efforts in Iraq are a mess, and throwing in more troops will not improve it."[34]. Annette Tilleman'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. "[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. 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. Miraculously she has emerged, smiling andsinging, from very near death both times. Check out the latest pictures, photos and images of Annette Lantos. Only 13 at the time, she knew that she and her mother needed to immediately leave their home and go into hiding. But here is a brief (wellit is not so briefyou may wish to drasticallyedit it!) 1944-2008, 199.35 linear feet. Recalling his early life, he announced his retirement by stating to Congress, "I will never be able to express fully my profoundly felt gratitude to this great country. 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. 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 . Preceded by: Henry Hyde Succeeded by: Howard Berman Constituency: 11th district (1981-1993) 12th district . Lantos was an immediate and consistent critic of the troop surge advocated by President Bush. 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. 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. I apologize in the words ofE.B. The mission of The Sunstone Education Foundation is to sponsor open forums of Mormon thought and experience. I do not believe in death. 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]. This article will clarify Tom Lantos's In4fp, Net Worth . Although the Swedish humanitarian was never found, Annette and Congressman Lantos have been instrumental in honoring his legacy through numerous legislative initiatives. They were protesting the role of the Sudanese government in carrying out genocide in the Darfur conflict and were arrested for disorderly conduct. 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 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. 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. Read More. Under her leadership, The Lantos Foundation has rapidly become a distinguished and respected voice on key human rights concerns. He died before finishing his term. He was 80. You remember that, Annette being a step ahead of our persecutors? Schneier asked Lantos widow. 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