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. In 1988, Nicholas W. Kudrovzeff, American Independent Party, received 1,893 votes (1%). Her mother slipped out of Hungary with a protective passportanother Wallenberg rescue effort. "Many of them like my family were deeply patriotic and included military officers, university professors, writers and they were enormously proud of . Only 13 at the time, she knew that she and her mother needed to immediately leave their home and go into hiding. 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. Durant ces dbats, les diverses tendances du . [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. 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 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. He was married to Annette Tillemann. Tom Lantos (Lantos Pter Tams, Budapest, 1928. februr 1. 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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. ALL MATERIAL: COPYRIGHT CALIFORNIA EUROPEAN CULTURAL INITIATIVE/MEMORY PROJECT 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. The mission of The Sunstone Education Foundation is to sponsor open forums of Mormon thought and experience. In a ceremony at the White House, Bush stated "We miss his vigorous defense of human rights and his powerful witness for the cause of human freedom. "[9], Despite being fluent in English, Lantos never lost his Hungarian accent. The resolution later passed the House and the Senate with a total of 373 members of Congress supporting it. 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. 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 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. Lantos remembered this period and a newspaper headline he read when he was ten years old, "Hitler Marches into Austria". [54], On May 3, 2000, Lantos was involved in an automobile accident while driving on Capitol Hill. The story of Congressman Tom Lantos as told by his wife, Mrs. Annette Lantos. Ideas That Animate My Religious Life. [49], Budapest named a promenade in the city in honor of Lantos in 2016. 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. Forgive me. The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice was founded later that year to carry out that wish. 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. 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. 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. At Wallenberg's prompting, similar protective passports were issued by the Swiss and Spanish governments and the Vatican. Timeline 1981 Democrat member of the US House of Representatives from California; term of service: 3 January 1981 - 11 February 2008 (died in office). 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. [35], On April 28, 2006, Lantos and four other Democratic U.S. I try to serve as Co-Chairman of the Advisory Committeeof the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice which we established tocarry forward the voice of my dad, Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivorever elected to the US Congress. Only 13 at the time, she knew that she and her mother needed to immediately leave their home and go into hiding. "[45], A memorial service was held for Lantos on February 14, 2008, at Statuary Hall in the Capitol. 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 h. - Listen to Episode 4 : Annette Lantos by The Keeper instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed. It absolutely transcends party lines.. Annette Lantos is a Chairman of The Lantos Foundation at Lantos Foundation based in Concord, New Hampshire. We examine and express the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic qualities of Mormon history and contemporary life. Miraculously she has emerged, smiling andsinging, from very near death both times. She has spearheaded numerous efforts to help . Among his other efforts was a demand that Japan apologize for sex slavery during World War II. 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. 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. 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. Tom Lantos, who later became a representative in Congress, helped making Wallenberg an honorary citizen of USA. 20 Annette Lantos pictures. 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. These alleged atrocities figured prominently in the rhetoric at the time about Iraqi abuses in Kuwait. Tillemann-Dick's late husband, Timber Dick, was an acclaimed inventor and the son of Colorado's first female lieutenant governor. She also spoke directly with President Jimmy Carter about Wallenberg's case. 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. 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. 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. Mother Annette Lantos eventually joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [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. That first production number was followed by many moreeleven living babesin all, stillborn twins and a beautiful adopted teenager from Honduras. She read Bible stories to her daughters but showed deference to her husband's wishes. Please be aware that some presenters and historical figures included in this content may have troubling histories of prejudice, criminal activity, violence, and abusesexual or otherwise. Her mothers Holocaust-era ID card sits on a shelf. Why are we now repeating the short-sighted patterns of the past? 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. 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. Igor and Irina Ratushinskaia, Tom Lantos, Kent Hill, and Annette Lantos, undated, Item 842, Box: 191. They were protesting the role of the Sudanese government in carrying out genocide in the Darfur conflict and were arrested for disorderly conduct. Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation, later called it the height of irony that the ban would block one of ISIS most effective and ardent foes. Dakhil eventually received a waiver to attend the eventa process the administration created to address situations like hersbut Swett urged event attendees to consider what an America First policy could mean for human rights. 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. Tom Lantos, the lone Holocaust survivor to serve in America's Congress, died Monday morning after a battle with cancer of the esophagus. She said the Obama administration often took the right positions, but then didnt back them up with policies. 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.. His occupation was Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. Annette Lantos's birthday is 06/27/1931 and is 90 years old. This is not a knock on you, General Petraeus, or on you, Ambassador Crocker. 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. Previously city included Denver CO. Lantos was referring to Schrder's ties to energy business in Russia, and remarked that this appellation would offend prostitutes. Under her leadership, The Lantos Foundation has rapidly become a distinguished and respected voice on key human rights concerns. 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. His the best movie is The Last Days. guys who need constant female attention; 8th infantry division baumholder germany. Senators, and in 1980, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, where he remained until his death in February 2008. [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". He had 2 children Katrina Swett, Annette Tillemann-Dick. [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. Annette Lantos. 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. Why didnt his obituaries say so? 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.. Her efforts to locate and free Wallenberg from the Soviet Union resulted in several interviews on national news programs such as CBS's 60 Minutes. Updated: December 06, 2013 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]. His spouse is Annette Tillemann ( m. 1950) . She said the Iraq War and the rise of LGBT activism have caused some to back away from global human rights issuesespecially religious freedom. Although the Swedish humanitarian was never found, Annette and Congressman Lantos have been instrumental in honoring his legacy through numerous legislative initiatives. *Write-in and minor candidate notes: In 1980, Nicholas W. Kudrovzeff, American Independent Party, received 1,550 votes (1%). Latest news and commentary on Annette Lantos including photos, videos, quotations, and a biography. Showing Editorial results for annette lantos. 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. Class of 1978 Denomination: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints To say I am chagrined that it has been so many.many years since I have communicated with the faithful class secretaries would be an understatement. [30], "Nurse Nayirah" later turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Annette married Thomas Peter Lantos on month day 1950, at age 19 at marriage place. One day, young Katrina sent chills up her mothers spine when she wished the family happy new yearin the fall. Menu Log In Sign Up Contact. He would go on to help found the Congressional Human Rights Caucusrenamed the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission after his deathand chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Lewis. Their first home was a tiny apartment in San Francisco. Mother Annette Lantos eventually joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 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. other very serious criminal conduct."[60][61]. Lantos served as the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. in 1949 and an M.A. 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. Warm and loving wishes to allplease visit usin Denver when you are in town. [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. 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. 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. [citation needed]. 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. [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. Ji Wolf (1952. janur 5., Jindichv Hradec , Csehszlovkia ) a Charta 77 alrja , volt politikai fogoly, antikommunista, meseknyv szerz, valamint radiklis ellenzje s kritikusa a "Charta nemessgnek", amely vlemnye szerint Vclav Havel s szmos ms, a volt cseh elnkhz kzeli szemly.. Wolfot elszr 1978. februr 16-n tartztattk le, miutn a . 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. 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. Tom Lantos was born on February 1, 1928 (age 80) in Hungary. Ideas That Animate My Religious Life What Do I Believe? She has spearheaded numerous efforts to help human rights victims, including those persecuted for religious and political reasons, and to further human rights causes. in 1950. She served as the unpaid Executive Director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which Congressman Lantos co-founded. Swett flashed one of her frequent smiles and said she has her father looking down on me from every corner of my office. His wife, Annette Lantos (born Tilleman), was a first cousin, once removed, of actresses Magda Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Eva Gabor. We were the same.. Interview by Andrea Lauer Rice & Rka Pigniczky, Hungarian American Visual History Archive. 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. Our efforts in Iraq are a mess, and throwing in more troops will not improve it."[34]. 11:00 to 5:00, Monday-Friday, Sunstone Harassment Policy and Code of Conduct, What Do I Believe? Swett spent the Obama years often urging the administration to be more active and challenging congressional Democrats to do the same. Gbor testvre, Tilleman Szebasztian lnya, az 1931-ben szletett Tilleman Anett nagynnje, aki Budapesten szletett, eredeti nevn Lantos Pter Tamshoz, Tom Lantos ksbbi amerikai kpviselhz ment felesgl. She was an actress, known for Mai lnyok (1937), Tokaji rapszdia (1937) and The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950). Her father was a great man, said Elliott Abrams, a former Reagan administration official who frequently worked with Lantos on human rights issues. 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. You can look her up on theinterneteither by checking out some of her TED talks or just Google "Operasinger-lung transplants". 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. Katrina wouldnt have itshe just wouldnt vote a party line, Abrams said. Annette Lantos is the Chairman of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. More information on Tom Lantos can be found here. I eloped with the Godspell productionmanager, Timber Dick, in March of 1978. Preceded by: Henry Hyde Succeeded by: Howard Berman Constituency: 11th district (1981-1993) 12th district . Date: 19 June 2008, 09:57:20: 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. Our guest on this episode of The Keeper is . Biography - A Short Wiki. 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. 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. The couple reconnected after the war, married in 1950, and settled in California. Turning a painful past into a passion for human rights: The story of Annette Tilleman Lantos. His daughter Annette was married to Timber . Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick is an American community leader and innovator in health and education policy at the local, state, national and international levels. Copyright 2023 Yale University. On the wall hangs a painted portrait of her father casting an adoring glance at his wife. A short while earlier, they had fled from Hungary where Jews were facing deportation and death at the hands of the Nazi occupiers. Lantos, a Democrat, was first elected in 1981 . All Photographs courtesy of Babette Rittmeyer, Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice. We have to move on., And so he did. 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. 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. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) and the Budapest based Tom Lantos Institute. 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. "[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". Annette, the wife of the late Tom Lantos, former US Califo. 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. - Bethesda, 2008. februr 11.) He eventually became a senior advisor to various U.S. Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers, SC-048. I do not believe in death. The girl's account was later challenged by independent human rights monitors. 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 . They remained married until his death in 2008. She served as the unpaid Executive Director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which Congressman Lantos co-founded. He used his powerful voice to stir the consciousness of world leaders and the public alike. Lantos Swett earned a Political Science degree from Yale University at the age of 18, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and a PhD in History from The University of Southern Denmark. The Tom Lantos papers document the career of a Hungarian-born American politician who was the only Holocaust survivor to have served in the United States Congress. Whats the message? He had become a hunted animal because he was a young Jewish man, Swett said. Personal details about Annette include: political affiliation is unknown; ethnicity is Caucasian; and religious . We like to think we punch above our weight, Swett said before taking me on a tour of her orderly office. A short while earlier, they had fled from Hungary where Jews were Search instead in Creative? Episode 2 captures the incredible journey of faith of Holocaust Survivor Annette Tillemann Lantos. [14], After graduation from Berkeley, Lantos became a professor of economics at San Francisco State University. 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. And therefore I feel with great certainty that Tom is alive, and that hes here right now listening to our farewell before he will depart into the light for a joyous reunion with his friends and deceased family.. We encourage humanitarian service, honest inquiry, and responsible interchange of ideas that is respectful of all people and what they hold sacred. 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