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Lantos Retires
Rep. Tom Lantos, who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives
Foreign Affairs Committee and is the only Holocaust survivor elected
to the Congress, on Wednesday said he has been diagnosed with cancer
and will not seek re-election in November.
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Lantos Escaped From Two Death Camps
The 79-year-old California Democrat, who was born in
Hungary and twice escaped Nazi labor camps. The SS called him 'The
Ghost'.
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His
Whole Family Was Gassed
Lantos, a native of
Hungary who survived the death camps of World War II but lost his
family in the Holocaust.
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Lantos
Grabs A Gun
As a 13 yr old, he was a
member of the anti-Nazi underground, and later a member of the
anti-Communist student movement
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Lantos Gets
A Scholarship
Lantos, who
won a postwar scholarship to study at the University, lined up for his
first meal aboard ship to see wicker baskets filled with oranges and
bananas. He asked a seaman if he could have one and was told, "Man,
you can eat all the damn bananas and all the damn oranges you want."
"It was then I knew I was in heaven," said Lantos
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Whole Family Of
Holocaust Survivors
Lantos and his wife,
Annette, had two daughters, both of whom promised a gift of
grandchildren to their parents. "Because my wife and I were survivors
of the Holocaust, because our own families were killed, the gift to us
was to give us as many grandchildren as possible, to keep alive the
names of those who were lost," said Lantos. He paused, his voice
softening, and said, "Our cup runneth over
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Pelosi Cries
Nancy Pelosi, a fellow Zionist, called Lantos "one of America's
leading experts on foreign affairs and most effective advocates for
human rights both at home and abroad." She added, "As the only
Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress.
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