[36], Lantos was an activist for the rights of Hungarian minorities;[37][38] as a member of the US House of Representatives. She was previously married to Tibor Heltai, George Sanders, Tony Gallucci, Sidney R. Warren, William Rankin and Jan de Bichovsky. 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. Swett attributes her double education at home and school for rapidly preparing her for college. 65 Comments Post navigation You won't have any problem with Saddam. I will never be able to express fully my profoundly felt gratitude to this great country. ALL MATERIAL: COPYRIGHT CALIFORNIA EUROPEAN CULTURAL INITIATIVE/MEMORY PROJECT Previously, Annette was a Board of Adv isors Member at Airline Ambassadors International and also held positions at Falun Gong, Years. 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. Warm and loving wishes to allplease visit usin Denver when you are in town. Miraculously she has emerged, smiling andsinging, from very near death both times. February 11, 2008 / 9:46 AM / AP. 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. By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA.org. Senators, and in 1980, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, where he remained until his death in February 2008. Interview by Andrea Lauer Rice & Rka Pigniczky, Hungarian American Visual History Archive. [17] [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. Annette Lantos is the Chairman of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. She has spearheaded numerous efforts to help human rights victims, including those persecuted for religious and political reasons, and to further human rights causes. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988. Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers, SC-048. 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Turning a painful past into a passion for human rights: The story of Annette Tilleman Lantos. 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. 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 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. The foundation uses three primary means to do so: The Lantos Congressional Fellows program provides mentoring and support for about 10 young human rights activists each year; the Front Line Fund awards grants to small organizations and individuals doing unheralded work; the Lantos Prize for Human Rights annually honors a person for outstanding advocacylike Vian Dakhil. Annette Lantos is the author of A Quiet Courage (3.22 avg rating, 9 ratings, 3 reviews, published 1997) She read Bible stories to her daughters but showed deference to her husbands wishes. 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. [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. "[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. ADDRESS 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. 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. 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. 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. A short while earlier, they had fled from Hungary where Jews were 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). 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. He escaped, but was soon caught by the Germans and beaten severely, then returned to the labor camp. Sometimes Annette goes by various nicknames including Annette T Lantos, Annette P Lantos, Annette M Lantos and Annette Tillemanlantos. She served as the unpaid Executive Director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which Congressman Lantos co-founded. 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. Annette Lantos. Personal details about Annette include: political affiliation is unknown; ethnicity is Caucasian; and religious . 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. 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. And in my eyes, the Star of David that was just formed from a yellow Star of David on the torn clothing of a victim into a shining blue Star of David emblazoned on an American Air Force jet and flown by an Israeli fighter pilot, that shining star is Tom Lantos., She finished with the Hebrew blessing, May his memory be blessed.. Among his many international battles, Lantos frequently criticized abuses in China, spoke out against Communism, and steadfastly supported Israel. [33] In later hearings on the war, Lantos continued his enthusiastic support. [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. 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. He had 2 children Katrina Swett, Annette Tillemann-Dick. 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. 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. 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. Meanwhile, Tom Lantos joined an underground movement when the Nazis took Hungary. White House photo by Shealah Craighead. [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. other very serious criminal conduct."[60][61]. I truly appreciate your constancy andremember with gratitude your band's vital contribution to our production ofGOdspell so many years ago. 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. Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick is an American community leader and innovator in health and education policy at the local, state, national and international levels. 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. The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice was founded later that year to carry out that wish. 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. 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. Atop a bookcase sit separate photos of her father shaking hands with Bill Clinton and Barack Obamanear a photo of her smiling parents with Condoleezza Rice. She is now chairwoman of the . [29], Lantos was a strong supporter of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The respective answers came at his memorial service last week: Apparently not much, and not at all. 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. Showing Editorial results for annette lantos. We encourage humanitarian service, honest inquiry, and responsible interchange of ideas that is respectful of all people and what they hold sacred. Swett spent the Obama years often urging the administration to be more active and challenging congressional Democrats to do the same. He is now the Senior Adviser to the Secretary ofState for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies (whew!) 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. 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I;m sorry this is asconcise as I could be at this time of night/day. 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 . 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. In 2015, Swett supported USCIRFs call for the U.S. government to recognize ISIS genocide against all affected groupsin the face of pressure to name only Yazidis. Search instead in Creative? Those same skies that did not hear the roar of the fighters planes in time were hearing them now, she said. 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. 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. We like to think we punch above our weight, Swett said before taking me on a tour of her orderly office. Our efforts in Iraq are a mess, and throwing in more troops will not improve it."[34]. [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. We'll be rid of the bastard soon enough. 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. [41], On August 27, 2006, at the Israeli Foreign Ministry building in Israel, Lantos said he would block a foreign aid package promised by President George W. Bush to Lebanon unless and until Beirut agreed to the deployment of international troops on the border with Syria and Lebanon takes control of its borders with Syria to prevent arms smuggling to Hezbollah guerrillas. 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. I think her father would be very proud.. Swett flashed one of her frequent smiles and said she has her father looking down on me from every corner of my office. 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. Annette M. Tillemann-Dick, M.A.R. As a young adult, Swett also became a Mormon and went on to raise her seven children in both religious traditions. Lantos, a Democrat, was first elected in 1981 . 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. 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. "Many of them like my family were deeply patriotic and included military officers, university professors, writers and they were enormously proud of . 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. [30], "Nurse Nayirah" later turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. "[45], A memorial service was held for Lantos on February 14, 2008, at Statuary Hall in the Capitol. "[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". 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. Rhetoric is always easier than policy, Swett said. Her family had managed to escape to Switzerland, using Swedish passports issued by Raoul Wallenberg. More information on Tom Lantos can be found here. The resolution later passed the House and the Senate with a total of 373 members of Congress supporting it. [31] Yet Representative Tom Lantos has been caught doing exactly that. [50], Lantos received the Grand Cross, Hungary's highest civilian honor. Ideas That Animate My Religious Life Annette Tilleman Lantos. Tom Lantos, az egyetlen holokauszttll, aki az Egyeslt llamok kpviselhznak valaha is 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. Instead, the younger Annette suggested, he admired his wife's beliefs but did not embrace them: "He had faith in the sustaining power of her faith in spirituality," she said. 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). 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. She said the Obama administration often took the right positions, but then didnt back them up with policies. Even at a young age, he understood the significance of this invasion:[9]. 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.. [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. Katrina Lantos Swett recalls her father as a proud and patriotic Hungarian before his country turned against him. I sensed that this historic moment would have a tremendous impact on the lives of Hungarian Jews, my family, and myself. We were the same.. 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. The familys political connections have aided the foundations growth, but Swetts persistent work has swiftly turned the organization into a respected human rights institution. She read Bible stories to her daughters but showed deference to her husband's wishes. 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. 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